Description
Within the EC’s initiative of “Measures aiming to reduce the presence in the environment of unintentionally released microplastics from tyres, textiles and plastic pellets” knowledge gaps for micro and nanoplastics (MNPs) in environmental, drinking and bottled water have been acknowledged for correction including: Risks and occurrence; harmonised methods for sampling, processing, data analysis and reporting. Imminent new ISO standards for the sampling of microplastics in water and the spectroscopic methods for their analysis, and environmental legislation for microplastics in water, that began with the EU’s ‘Towards Zero Pollution for Air, Water and Soil’ of 2021, were joined in 2022 by a standard for microplastics in drinking water in the state of California.
The ‘ISO compatible, efficient and reproducible protocols/equipment for mICro-nanoPLASTIC detection through machine-learning’ (ICPLASTIC) Action will create a broad and skilled transdisciplinary network of instrument/equipment makers, their end-users and relevant academics/technologists. It will, through scientific discussion and elaboration, converge on the necessary key parameters (and their value ranges) for user and design specifications of protocols and equipment that can support the aforementioned standards and legislation, and produce a risk analysis.
ICPLASTIC’s impacts will benefit the scientific community, economy and all European citizens: (1) Marketed equipment for MNP sampling, sample preparation and analysis, compatible with ISO standards and the ICPLASTIC risk analysis; (2) Environmental, drinking and bottled water legislation introduced, compatible with ISO, the ICPLASTIC risk analysis and the aforementioned equipment; (3) Dissemination of information from non-ITCs to ITCs, and from senior to junior researchers, for regional MNP monitoring and legislation, and career development.
Action keywords
Microplastics - ISO - Machine learning - envrionmental, drinking and bottled water - analytical techniques
Management Committee
Country | MC Member |
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Albania | |
Albania | |
Austria | |
Belgium | |
Croatia | |
Croatia | |
Denmark | |
Estonia | |
Finland | |
Finland | |
France | |
Germany | |
Greece | |
Greece | |
Hungary | |
Hungary | |
Iceland | |
Italy | |
Italy | |
Latvia | |
Latvia | |
Lithuania | |
North Macedonia | |
Norway | |
Norway | |
Poland | |
Portugal | |
Portugal | |
Serbia | |
Serbia | |
Slovenia | |
Slovenia | |
Spain | |
Switzerland | |
Türkiye | |
Türkiye | |
United Kingdom | |
United Kingdom |
Main Contacts
Action Contacts
COST Staff
Leadership
Role | Leader |
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Action Chair | |
Action Vice-Chair | |
Grant Holder Scientific Representative | |
Science Communication Coordinator | |
Grant Awarding Coordinator | |
WG1 Leader | |
WG2 Leader | |
WG3 Leader | |
WG4 Leader | |
WG5 Leader | |
WG6 Leader | |
WG7 Leader |
Additional roles
Role | Leader |
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Young Researchers Coordinator | |
Inter Working Group Coordinator |
Working Groups
Number | Title | Leader |
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1 | Plan and programme compliance | |
2 | Optimisation of analytical procedures and tools | |
3 | Implementation of Machine Learning | |
4 | Optimisation of sampling and sample preparation protocols and tools | |
5 | Determination of relevant particle mass, shape and size distribution ranges, and chemicals | |
6 | Toxicology | |
7 | Risk analysis |
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Name | Working Group | Country |
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WG 1 | Norway | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Italy | |
WG 1, WG 3, WG 4, WG 5, WG 6 | United Kingdom | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 4, WG 5 | France | |
WG 1, WG 3, WG 4, WG 5 | Türkiye | |
WG 1 | Türkiye | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 4, WG 5, WG 6, WG 7 | Serbia | |
WG 1, WG 4, WG 7 | Poland | |
WG 1, WG 4, WG 5 | Belgium | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 4, WG 5, WG 6, WG 7 | Italy | |
WG 1, WG 4, WG 5, WG 6, WG 7 | Spain | |
WG 1, WG 3 | Lithuania | |
WG 1, WG 6 | Türkiye | |
WG 1 | Italy | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 4, WG 5 | Türkiye | |
WG 1, WG 4, WG 5 | Türkiye | |
WG 1, WG 4 | Türkiye | |
WG 1, WG 3 | Türkiye | |
WG 2, WG 3, WG 4, WG 6 | Czechia | |
WG 2, WG 3 | United Kingdom | |
WG 2, WG 4, WG 5, WG 7 | Serbia | |
WG 2 | Poland | |
WG 2, WG 4, WG 5 | Sweden | |
WG 2, WG 5 | Norway | |
WG 2, WG 3, WG 4, WG 5, WG 6 | Germany | |
WG 2, WG 4, WG 5, WG 6 | Portugal | |
WG 2, WG 4, WG 5 | Portugal | |
WG 2, WG 3 | United Kingdom | |
WG 2, WG 3, WG 4, WG 5 | Denmark | |
WG 2, WG 4, WG 5, WG 6 | Switzerland | |
WG 2 | United Kingdom | |
WG 2, WG 4, WG 5 | Belgium | |
WG 2, WG 5 | United Kingdom | |
WG 2 | United Kingdom | |
WG 2, WG 4 | Türkiye | |
WG 2, WG 3, WG 4, WG 5 | France | |
WG 2 | Croatia | |
WG 2, WG 4, WG 5 | Hungary | |
WG 2, WG 4, WG 5, WG 7 | Hungary | |
WG 2 | Germany | |
WG 2, WG 4, WG 5 | Tunisia | |
WG 2, WG 4, WG 5 | Portugal | |
WG 2, WG 4, WG 5 | Finland | |
WG 2, WG 5 | Germany | |
WG 2, WG 4 | Denmark | |
WG 2, WG 3, WG 4 | Spain | |
WG 2, WG 5 | Germany | |
WG 2, WG 4, WG 6 | Czechia | |
WG 2 | Greece | |
WG 2, WG 4 | Greece | |
WG 2, WG 3, WG 4, WG 5, WG 6 | Finland | |
WG 2, WG 4, WG 6 | Switzerland | |
WG 2 | Sweden | |
WG 2, WG 4, WG 5, WG 6 | Slovenia | |
WG 2, WG 4 | Finland | |
WG 2, WG 4 | Spain | |
WG 2, WG 3 | Czechia | |
WG 2, WG 3, WG 4, WG 5 | Türkiye | |
WG 2 | Türkiye | |
WG 2 | Türkiye | |
WG 2, WG 4, WG 5, WG 6 | North Macedonia | |
WG 2, WG 3, WG 4, WG 5 | Spain | |
WG 2, WG 4 | Estonia | |
WG 2, WG 5 | France | |
WG 2 | Serbia | |
WG 2 | Latvia | |
WG 2 | Albania | |
WG 3, WG 4, WG 5, WG 6 | Türkiye | |
WG 3, WG 7 | Portugal | |
WG 3 | Portugal | |
WG 3 | Portugal | |
WG 3 | Türkiye | |
WG 3, WG 4, WG 7 | Serbia | |
WG 3 | Serbia | |
WG 3, WG 4 | France | |
WG 3 | Türkiye | |
WG 3 | Serbia | |
WG 3 | Switzerland | |
WG 3 | Croatia | |
WG 3, WG 4 | Iceland | |
WG 3 | Austria | |
WG 3, WG 4, WG 5 | Türkiye | |
WG 3 | Ireland | |
WG 3, WG 4 | North Macedonia | |
WG 3 | Slovenia | |
WG 3 | Spain | |
WG 4, WG 5, WG 6, WG 7 | Latvia | |
WG 4, WG 5 | United Kingdom | |
WG 4, WG 6, WG 7 | Portugal | |
WG 4, WG 7 | Serbia | |
WG 4, WG 7 | Serbia | |
WG 4, WG 5, WG 6 | Serbia | |
WG 4, WG 5, WG 7 | Türkiye | |
WG 4 | Poland | |
WG 4, WG 5 | Türkiye | |
WG 4 | Poland | |
WG 4 | Poland | |
WG 4 | Serbia | |
WG 4, WG 5 | Latvia | |
WG 4 | Türkiye | |
WG 4 | Serbia | |
WG 4, WG 5 | Croatia | |
WG 4, WG 5 | Albania | |
WG 4 | Latvia | |
WG 4, WG 5 | Türkiye | |
WG 4, WG 5 | Serbia | |
WG 4 | Austria | |
WG 5 | South Africa | |
WG 6 | Switzerland | |
WG 6, WG 7 | Serbia | |
WG 6, WG 7 | Belgium | |
WG 6 | Estonia | |
WG 6, WG 7 | Portugal | |
WG 6 | Switzerland | |
WG 6, WG 7 | Portugal | |
WG 6 | Serbia | |
WG 6 | Serbia | |
WG 6, WG 7 | Latvia | |
WG 6 | Serbia | |
WG 6, WG 7 | Portugal | |
WG 6, WG 7 | Portugal | |
WG 6, WG 7 | Albania | |
WG 7 | Serbia | |
WG 7 | Serbia | |
WG 7 | Serbia | |
WG 7 | Serbia | |
WG 7 | Serbia | |
WG 7 | Serbia | |
WG 7 | Serbia | |
WG 7 | Denmark |