Project description:
Microplastics are a fast emerging class of pollutants emanating from human domestic, industrial, and, other ancillary activities. This is especially true in large urban aggregations with large populations such as Lagos, Nigeria. This projects is intended to establish presences, types, and ubiquity of occurrence of microplastics in the Lagos lagoon while concurrently establishing ecotoxicological implications if any.
PLA-NET – a platform about plastics in freshwater and coastal environments to boost information exchange between various global regions.