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It’s time to classify plastics as persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic pollutants

It’s time to classify plastics as persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic pollutants

Researchers from around the world are urging the international community to recognize the full environmental and health threat of plastics and categorize them as persistent, bio-accumulative and toxic (PBT) pollutants.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, OPRU, plastic, pollution, Research, toxins, United Nations (UN)

New WORKING PAPER: Ecological Impacts of Marine Plastic Pollution, Microplastics’ Foodweb Bioaccumulation Modelling and Global Ocean Footprint: Insights into the Problems, the Management Implications and Coastal Communities Inequities

New WORKING PAPER: Ecological Impacts of Marine Plastic Pollution, Microplastics’ Foodweb Bioaccumulation Modelling and Global Ocean Footprint: Insights into the Problems, the Management Implications and Coastal Communities Inequities

The Nippon Foundation-Ocean Litter Project (2019-2023)

Posted in 2023, IOFNews | Tagged with food webs, IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, Microplastics, ocean, OPRU, plastic, pollution, Publications, Research

Tips for reducing your plastic use

Tips for reducing your plastic use

Here are some clever tips on how to reduce your plastic use.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews | Tagged with International Plastic Free Day, IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, Microplastics, OPRU, plastic

May 25 is International Plastic Free Day!

May 25 is International Plastic Free Day!

Plastic is everywhere. It’s in our oceans, coastal areas, and buried deep in the soil. It’s in our food and our water, and wreaks havoc on the natural world around us.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with International Plastic Free Day, IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, Microplastics, OPRU, plastic

‘This is a wake-up call for the world’: UBC researchers at the forefront of championing for change

‘This is a wake-up call for the world’: UBC researchers at the forefront of championing for change

The Galápagos islands are under severe threat from ocean pollution, climate change, and illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing pressures

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Biodiversity, Climate change, Conservation, Galápagos, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, Juan Jose Alava, OPRU, penguins, pollution, Research

Toxic toilet paper and long-lasting chemicals found in endangered killer whales

Toxic toilet paper and long-lasting chemicals found in endangered killer whales

A chemical used in the production of toilet paper and ‘forever chemicals’ have been found in the bodies of orcas in B.C. , including the endangered southern resident killer whales.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with British Columbia, chemicals, IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, Marine mammals, OPRU, pollution, Research, whales

Darwin’s Eden awash in plastics

Darwin’s Eden awash in plastics

Penguin guano from the Galápagos is helping UBC researchers track microplastic pollution from around the globe

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Galápagos, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, Juan Jose Alava, Microplastics, OPRU, penguins, Research, zooplankton

World Oceans Week 2022 – Dr. Juan José Alava

World Oceans Week 2022 – Dr. Juan José Alava

Any international effort to end plastic pollution must also contend with wealth disparities between nations, according to Dr. Alava. “In some developing countries, the reality is that people survive on plastic garbage.”

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Juan Jose Alava, Microplastics, OPRU, World Ocean Day

Instead of shopping this Black Friday, consider curbing your consumption

Instead of shopping this Black Friday, consider curbing your consumption

Drs. Juan Jose Alava and Rashid Sumaila are urging consumers to make the connection between what they buy on Black Friday and what eventually ends up harming our ecosystems—and our health.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, IOFSS, News Release | Tagged with Juan Jose Alava, OPRU, plastic, pollution, Rashid Sumaila

PROFILE: Investigating ocean pollution to “provide solutions, not just answers to questions”

PROFILE: Investigating ocean pollution to “provide solutions, not just answers to questions”

“Anthropogenic stressors are reshaping our ocean – it’s not the same ocean we had 30 or 40 years ago. As academics we need to provide solutions, not just answers to questions.”

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Evgeny Pakhomov, Fieldwork, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, Juan Jose Alava, OPRU, penguins, plastic, pollution, Research

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