The Environmental Pollution Control Laboratory (Aristotle University ofThessaloniki) was organized on the 23rd and 24th of October,2023.
The Environmental Pollution Control Laboratory (Aristotle University ofThessaloniki) succesfully organized the final MOREM Workshop on the 24th of October,2023. Read more on the press release here.
The Environmental Pollution Control Laboratory (Aristotle University ofThessaloniki) is inviting you to the MOREM Workshop on the 24th of October,2023. The hybrid workshop will be held online and in the Center of Center forInterdisciplinary Research and Innovation. Live hands-on training will take place for the on-site participants. The registration is available here. Invitation and program are available here.
With great success, the two-part online Workshop the MOREM and GreenPro research projects was held on the 3rd December 2021. The workshop was organized by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Department of Chemistry and School of Veterinary Medicine and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation. The seminar was attended by more than 80 students, researchers and collaborators working in related research areas. The press release is available here.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Nanjing University and Sun Yat-sen University under the«Bilateral and Multilateral RTD cooperation between Greece and China» are inviting you to theinterdisciplinary Workshop presenting the scientific projects GreenPro & MOREM Organization: Greece: Dept. Veterinary Medicine, Dept. of Chemistry, Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki China: Dept. of Environmental Science, Sun Yat-sen University. The registration link is available here. Invitation and program are available here.
The kick-off meeting was succesfully organized
Read moreECHA: Plastics make our lives easier in many ways and are often lighter or cost less than alternative materials. However, if they are not properly disposed of or recycled, they may end up in the environment where they stay for centuries and degrade into smaller and smaller pieces. These small pieces (typically smaller than 5mm) are called microplastics and they are of concern....
Microplatics (MPs) have been shown to have negative impacts on aquatic organisms in our environment. More specifically, MPs are particles smaller than 5 mm and are primarily made of polyethylene, polypropylene and other polymers. The potential impacts of microplastics on aquatic life, biodiversity and human health, associated with their intentional use in products, have generated a lot of concerns worldwide. However, neither MPs’ concentrations nor their sources or sinks are completely known. Waste water treatment plants (WWTPs) are considered as significant point sources discharging MPs to the environment. However, at this time, it is unknown how these pollutants behave during transport through wastewater treatment facilities. In this context, over the last few years, a number of studies have focused on the detection of microplastics, including polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) beads and polyester, acrylic, polyamide and nylon fibers in wastewater effluents. Despite, however, recent efforts to detect microplastics in wastewater effluents there is a lack of a standardized and applicable method to identify microplastics in such complex matrices. Understanding the fate and transport pathways of MPs in wastewater treatment processes is of great interest to plant design engineers and environmental scientists alike. New findings could help us to refine and improve existing treatment plant processes to manage or eliminate this new class of pollutants. However, the quantitative and qualitative determination of MPs, is not an easy task, since a widely established and recognized sampling and analysis methodology for the MPs characterization does not exist. Read morePharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) and microplastics are of scientific and public concern as newly recognized classes of environmental pollutants and are receiving considerable attention with respect to their environmental fate and toxicological properties over the last decade. Public interest is quickly increasing because of their potential impact on the environment and possibly human health, even at trace concentrations. Many of these PPCPs, which often are pharmacologically active or endocrine modulating across multiple levels of biological organization, are not completely removed by wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and effluents have been identified as an important source. Consequently, a vast number of these compounds have been detected in WWTP effluents, surface waters and, less frequently, in ground and drinking water all over the world. As conventional water and wastewater treatment processes are unable to act as a reliable barrier towards some recalcitrant PhACs, it is necessary to introduce and apply additional advanced treatment technologies that allow their removal in a fast and low-cost manner. In this context an increasing number of research studies has been focused on application of non-biological processes for the destruction of PhACs in waters with emphasis on Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) relying on the formation of highly reactive chemical species, which are capable of destroying and eventually mineralizing organic micro-pollutants. In recent years increasing attention has been paid to photocatalytic reactions occurring on semiconductor particles suspended in aqueous solutions. Apart from AOPs, adsorption process appears also to be a very promising technique for the removal of PPCPs, because of its convenience once applied into current water treatment processes...Read more