This is the verdict of SAPEA's Evidence Review Report on micro- and nanoplastic pollution, published in January 2019. The report is written by a group of world-leading experts nominated by academies across Europe, and informs Scientific Opinion 6 from the European Commission's Group of Chief Scientific Advisors.
The report comprehensively examines the best available evidence from the natural sciences and computer modelling, as well as social, political and behavioural sciences. Its key conclusions are:
The report is also being used in a seminar with students of environmental science at ETH Zurich and included in a syllabus of a Multidisciplinary Program on Sustainable Food and Biomass Systems of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel