NANOPLASTICS research is an emerging and critically important area of environmental science, focusing on sources, distribution, and ecological impacts, while also developing more sensitive detection methods, and assessing the toxicity. This multidisciplinary field involves chemists, biologists, ecologists, engineers, and policy makers.

For this reason, several Slovenian organisations and institutes (Institut Josef Stefan, Palatinus, LUI, and CHEMASS) organised on 16 May 2024 the first Slovenian Nanoplastics Research Symposium in Ljubljana and hybrid, entitled “Microplastics fro Breakfast – From Micro to Nano”, to discuss, inform and learn all about nanoplastics research in Slovenia and beyond.

With the objective of give some insight into plastic pollution, solutions, and good practice examples regarding biodiversity (especially water) and how to effectively communicate information among different stakeholders, our colleagues of NIC organised the event “Scientific and business approaches for effective communication on microplastics and biodiversity” on 7 June 2024 in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and hybrid.

On 25 April 2024 the 86th Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Discussion Forum took place in Zurich with Safe- and Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) as main topic.

The 23rd edition of the International Symposium on Field- and Flow-based Separations (iSFFF 2024) took place on 3-6 June 2024 in Nantes, France. The symposium offered an ideal opportunity to discuss recent technical and scientific developments in Field-Flow Fractionation and related techniques, and to take a look at all the fields of application: human health, environment, polymer sciences…