Dr Cassie Rauert, UQ Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences Research Fellow spoke with The Guardian about finding 6PPD-quinone in a Queensland creek and call for urgent research to see if local aquatic life was harmed.
Professor Kevin Thomas, Centre Director of UQ’s Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences spoke with The Guardian about the plastic-free lab researching how plastic absorption occurs and if it is harming humans.
In one of the world’s first plastics contamination-controlled laboratories, University of Queensland researchers have begun testing blood and tissue samples to develop ways to detect and measure nanoplastics in the human body.
Labelling of plastic products needs a drastic overhaul including a new "sustainability scale" to help consumers, according to research from The University of Queensland and University of Exeter.
