National Research Council (CNR), Institute for Chemical and Physical processes (IPCF), Messina, Italy

Project name:
MERLIN-MICROPLASTIQUES, funded by Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)

Project description:
The IFREMER Merlin-Microplastiques  project is a research project dedicated to the investigations of microplastics in marine environments aimed at: tracking the smallest plastics particles, understand their evolution and assess their impacts in marine ecosystems.

Related links:H
omepage of the project @ IFREMER
https://wwz.ifremer.fr/Actualites-et-Agenda/Toutes-les-actualites/Archives/2016/Le-projet-de-recherche-MERLIN-Microplastiques-est-lance

Press release @CNR of the work done by IPCF
https://www.cnr.it/it/comunicato-stampa/8925/misurare-in-acqua-le-micro-e-nanoplastiche-con-le-pinzette-raman