Philippe gives keynote on microplastics pollution

The NSERC Industrial Research Chair (IRC) in Water Treatment at Waterloo held its annual partner information days on November 3-4. The information days started off with a keynote presentation entitled “Microplastics and nanoplastics: Knowns and unknowns” given by Philippe. The talk covered the key issues related to microplastic pollution of aquatic environments and the recent progress in sampling, characterizing and identifying environmental micro- and nano-plastic particles. The presentation was intended as a general introduction to this emerging topic for the partners of the IRC, many of whom are municipal water utilities. The IRC is held by Prof. Peter Huck (LINK).