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PROJECT
STREAMS

The project is divided
into three streams:
I. Quantitative and qualitative analysis
of the microplastics in the Arctic and
study of its origin(s) ;
II. Food sustainability, human health and
microplastics (fisheries and food contamination) ;
III. Possible effects of microplastics on
the formation and melting of the ice and,
subsequently, on climate change.

Global Marine & Polar Programme IUCN
(International Union for Conservation of Nature)

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