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The project, backed by funding from insurance giant AXA, will “investigate the health impact of occupational exposure to airborne microplastics”.
According to Imperial, this can often occur from different activities along the recycling chain at plastic facilities where manual labour is often still required.
The project will be carried out by Dr Joseph Levermore, a research associate in the environmental research group at Imperial, and will begin later this year. It is one of 10 projects awarded a share of the £1.5 million AXA fund.
Samples
Dr Livermore will analyse collected air and human biological samples to identify “biomarkers for airborne micro-and nano-plastic exposure and assess the health impacts of such exposure”.
He explained: “With the shift to a more circular economy, the...]]>
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