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Grace Hewitt - Ishan

SALTED, BUBBLY OR PLAIN: Playful performative interactions with urban water

Posted onJanuary 14, 2019January 20, 2019AuthorGrace Hewitt

Grace is originally from Australia but currently lives between Helsinki and Berlin. She is an artist/writer/researcher whose interests include: silence, home and in-betweeness, arts-based research, experimental writing, embroidery and melancholic music. Read More …

CategoriesInspirations, KnowledgeTagsGrace Hewitt, research, water

Study: How Americans Relate to Water

Posted onNovember 15, 2018November 16, 2018AuthorTina Bayer

A new study was recently released about ‘How Americans Relate to Water’. Plastic and especially micro-plastic has been polluting our rivers, lakes, and ultimately the sea. This study shows that most people in the US see a strong relation between Read More …

CategoriesKnowledgeTagspure or plastic, research, study, water

microplastic research

Microplastic found in human poo!

Posted onOctober 24, 2018November 16, 2018AuthorTina Bayer

On the 22nd of October a research, conducted by a team of the Medical University of Vienna and two experts from the Environment Agency Austria, was presented at the UEG Week in Vienna, a European gastroenterology meeting. Th research confirms what we have Read More …

CategoriesKnowledgeTagshuman body, microplastic, research, UEG, Vienna

Our Research Projects

Posted onOctober 10, 2018March 16, 2019AuthorNicole Loeser

Here at The Universal Sea we are not only working tirelessly against the plastic epidemic in the world’s waterways, but we also conduct independent research projects. The results from these surveys will be included in the Universal Sea guidebook currently Read More …

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BE PART OF OUR RESEARCH PROJECTS!

Posted onSeptember 13, 2018July 2, 2019AuthorNicole Loeser

Here at The Universal Sea we are not only working tirelessly against the plastic epidemic in the world’s waterways, but we also conduct independent research projects. The results from these surveys will be included in the Universal Sea guidebook currently Read More …

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German Research Focus “Plastic in the Environment – Sources • Sinks • Solutions”

Posted onMay 4, 2018May 4, 2018AuthorPlastikNet

Plastic can be found everywhere in today’s world – in the arctic, on the ocean floor, and on uninhabited islands. Tiny plastic particles have even been found to be present in the cells of animals and plants. Our knowledge of Read More …

CategoriesKnowledgeTagsawareness raising, Germany, microplastics, plastics, research, scientific

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