Next conferences on marine litter
Published on by Kim van Arkel, Scientific Advisor
Dear Water Guardian Experts,
You will find bellow a list of some interesting conferences scheduled next year integrating the issue of marine litter,
Feel free to add your own events or other conferences that you heard about,
Kind regards.
Future of Polyolefins Summit
January 18-19, 2017 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.wplgroup.com/aci/event/polyolefins-conference/
IdentiPlast 2017: 13th International Conference on the Recycling and Recovery of Plastics
February 22-23, 2017 - Vienna, Austria
World Ocean Summit 2017
February 22-24, 2017 - Bali, Indonesia
http://www.economist.com/events-conferences/asia/ocean-summit-2017
ASLO 2017 Ocean Sciences Meeting
February 26 – March 3, 2017 - Honolulu, Hawaii, US
https://www.sgmeet.com/aslo/honolulu2017/
Annual Conference of International Association of Great Lakes Researchers
May 15-19, 2017 - Detroit, US
High-Level UN Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals 14 (UN Oceans Conference)
June 5-9, 2017 - New York City, US
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics/oceans/SDG14Conference
International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) Annual Meeting and WASTECON
September 25-27, 2017 - Baltimore, US
Major global waste management conference
Our Ocean Conference 2017
October 5-6, 2017 - Malta
Marine pollution will be one of four key topics of this meeting
Taxonomy
- Polymers & Plastics
- Waste Management
- Marine litter
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Some others interesting conferences :
Society of Ecotoxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Europe 27th Annual Meeting
May 7-11, 2017 - Brussels, Belgium
Conference will include one marine plastic session: “Microplastics, nanoplastics and co-contaminants: Effects and risk assessment for biota, the environment and human health”
African Marine Waste Conference
July 9-13, 2017 - Port Elizabeth, South Africa
http://www.sstconference.org.za/
A global audience, and especially individuals and organizations involved in marine conservancy and waste management throughout the African continent.
CEST 2017, 15th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology
August 31 to September 2, 2017 - Rhodes, Greece
http://cest.gnest.org/taxonomy/term/446
One session is called : Microplastics in the marine environment
PLASTINDIA 2018, India’s Largest Plastic Exhibition
Feb 7-12, 2018 - Gujarat
http://www.plastindia.org/plastindia-2018/index.html
10th International Plastics Exhibition, Conference
Sixth International Marine Debris Conference
March 12-16, 2018 - San Diego, CA, US
http://internationalmarinedebrisconference.org/
The main international conference on marine litter !
The conference is organised by UNEP and by NOAA.
MICRO 2018
Date and location to be determined
Follow-up to Micro 2016: https://micro2016.sciencesconf.org/