The project will analyze layers of polluted soil at the plastic polluted Lisle Lyngøyna island, Hordaland. The area is being characterized by an ongoing HMF project and as such represents a unique field “open lab” where a large amount of stranded marine litter has been buried in time and several ecological processes can be followed and studied including plastic fragmentation, release of plastic adsorbed chemicals and plastic’s interaction with flora and fauna.
There is rising concern about plastic litter accumulation in the environment. The knowledge about the biological effects to organisms of the marine coastal, freshwater and terrestrial environments is still fragmented and misinterpreted by the results of unrealistic exposure studies.
