10 search results for “microplastics” in the Staff website
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Laura Julia Zantis
Science
l.j.zantis@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Peiyan Qin
Science
p.qin@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Martina Vijver
Science
vijver@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1487
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Thijs Bosker
Science
t.bosker@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4924
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Plastic in cigarette filters: why smoking is bad for the environment too
We all know smoking is bad for our health. But we might not have known that the cigarette filters that litter our streets also impact the environment. Esther Kentin is a lecturer at Leiden Law School. She is raising awareness of the University’s cigarette butt problem.
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The lifecycle of a cigarette filter
The university is launching a campaign to focus extra attention on our smoke-free university locations. The University is using aptly named cigarette barrels to try to show clearly just how many cigarette filters are being saved from the environment. How harmful are these cigarette filters to the e…
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Leiden archaeologist investigates washed up plastics with National Geographic grant
Roberto Arciero is part of RESPIRE project (Research Educational and Storytelling Project in Italian Remote Ecosystem), an international and interdisciplinary research team led by Martina Capriotti (University of Camerino) that received the National Geographic Meridian grant. Among the different topics,…
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‘Butts off our campus’ days: Make our campus butt-free!
Facility
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Living Labs and ‘pavement plants’: Leiden University’s contributions to biodiversity
Through various initiatives, Leiden University is trying to make people aware of the importance of biodiversity: the cultivation of a wide variety of micro-organisms, animals and plant species. This is important because in the Netherlands biodiversity has declined from about 40 percent in 1900 to about…
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Michael Richardson
Science
m.k.richardson@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5215