MiP monitoring

Plastic is everwhere now both in visible and invisible forms for the naked eye. The latter is called microplastic causing many problems both in nature and humans. Unlike macroplastic, we cannot collect them from the rivers by traditional cleanups. But, we can measure them - the first microplastic measurement in Tisza River took place on a Plastic Cup event in cooperation with Wessling labs (now Eurofins). Since then, in cooperation with academic partners from Hungary and beyond, Plastic Cup catalyzed the comparision of microplastic sampling methods in the Danube Region. Now, thanks to our academic partners, we can manage to sample for microplastic to learn its presence in our rivers. Additionally, with the Danube region wide riversaver map, we wish to put all the microplastic measurement data on map to have a complete picture about this threat. If you have evered participated in microplastic measurement or aware of data that should be on map, reach out to us!