I'm are pleased to share our latest study examining an overlooked dimension of #microplastic exposure pathways. In this study, we provide the first international evidence that cigarette tobacco itself—independent of filters—contains microplastics at measurable levels.
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📢🌍 New Publication!
My new IPC–Mercator Policy Brief titled “Policy Framework on Single-Use Plastics in Türkiye” has been published! ♻️📄 🌱
👉 Click here to read the full brief! ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/en/publications
Our new study: illicit discharges from plastic recycling plants importing waste increase microplastics in irrigation canals by up to 132 times. Pollution is moving to agricultural areas and the Mediterranean. Recycling is not the solution the problem is systematic
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📉 Global fertility rates have dropped over 50% in the past 50 years.
What’s driving this decline? Research from Dr. Shanna Swan shows it’s closely linked to the chemicals in plastic. 🚨 ⚠️
#BreakFreeFromPlastic #ThePlasticDetox #UnplasticYourLife
New paper: depth-integrated assessment of microplastics in four reservoirs of the Ceyhan River Basin (Türkiye). MPs were ubiquitous (10.3–14.6 MP/L) and increased with depth, highlighting overlooked subsurface accumulation and the need for depth-integrated monitoring.
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😕 Hier sehen wir eine Folge von #Plastik #Recycling, über die wenig gesprochen wird: geschreddertes #Plastik, welches zum Teil im großen Stil (s. Bilder) in die Umwelt gelangt, auch als #Nanoplastik und #Mikroplastik. Hier: in der Türkei. Auch deutsches Plastik gelangt nach wie vor hierhin.
Here is the true cost of #plastic #recycling. Wastewater from recycling plants fills the Mediterranean coast of Türkiye with #microplastics. Most of this microplastics comes from recycling facilities which imports plastic waste from the EU and the UK.
📢✨ Yeni Politika Notu Yayında!
2025/26 Mercator-İPM Araştırmacısı Sedat Gündoğdu’nun
“Türkiye ve Dünyada Hızlı Moda Sektörünün Çevre, İklim ve Emek Maliyeti: Sorunlar ve Çözüm Önerileri” başlıklı İPM-Mercator Politika Notu yayımlandı. 🌍👕🌱
📄 Okumak için: 🔗https://ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/yayinlar
Our #review is out now! 🎉
💧 We revealed the occurrence, sources, and behavior of #microplastics and #nanoplastics across #urban water systems, assessing effectiveness of physical separation and chemical/biological degradation technologies.
Led by @sgundogdu.bsky.social
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Check this one out @sgundogdu.bsky.social!
US says energy (ie #LNG) is key to $100B trade goal with Türkiye www.dailysabah.com/business/ene...
@oilfieldwitness.bsky.social @sgundogdu.bsky.social @caneurope.org @nickcunningham.bsky.social @powershift.bsky.social
🎥Hear from one of our network members from Türkiye 🇹🇷, Sedat Gundogdu, a waste and plastic pollution expert with over 10 years of experience.
#GAIA25 #GoForZeroWaste #ZeroWasteForum #NoBurn #BreakFreeFromPlastic
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ICYMI: In the new Plastisphere episode, @sgundogdu.bsky.social and I chat about #plasticpollution in Turkey, how exports from the EU contribute to it, and what it takes to be a scientist-activist in the country. You can listen wherever you find your podcasts or here on.soundcloud.com/UiAGEWUk4f56...
A bale of plastic.
A mystery body.
A global investigation.
Boy Wasted - a new true crime series - out now!
Subscribe to the Eco Chamber podcast wherever you get your podcasts to get it in your feed.
www.endsreport.com/article/1932...
h/t @sgundogdu.bsky.social #plasticstreaty @toxicsfree.bsky.social @gaiazerowaste.bsky.social @breakfreefromplastic.org
🧪 ECHA has started a Call for Evidence for Substances in packaging/packaging waste.
🗓️ Open consultation deadline: 28.10.25
Please contribute papers and other evidence, as there will probably be many submissions with #ConflictsOfInterest.
➡️Details here: echa.europa.eu/cfe-substanc...
#plastic
With only ~30 hours left until the end of #INC5.2, the new Chair's text for negotiating a global #PlasticsTreaty has been released & criticised by many member states in the plenary session as being unacceptable. Here's what @scientistscoa.bsky.social thinks:
@awi.de
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👋 Are you joining the UN INC-5.2 meeting in Geneva? I will be there August 4-15 and would be glad to meet! I’m collaborating within the @scientistscoa.bsky.social to help share robust and independent scientific evidence to support the treaty process.
💬If you want to learn more, then let’s chat!
Interested in the upcoming #plasticstreaty INC-5.2? Get regular insights, updates, fact checks, and more from a global network of independent scientists here:
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📃 New paper by @kristiansyberg.bsky.social et al. highlights that "a circular #plastic economy should account for *all* societal costs"! #PlasticsTreaty
@scientistscoa.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New paper out under the scope of @CA_PRIORITY #Microplastics in soil: a comprehensive review of analytical techniques #soilscience #plasticpollution @FrontScience doi.org/10.3389/fsoi...
The Global Plastics Treaty must include strict global controls on plastic waste trade
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New Focus Issue on Plastic at IOP Publishing across 8 environmental journals, including Environmental Research Letters! Read more: ow.ly/7UIw50TO0ak
Guest Editors: Marcus Eriksen, Lisa Erdle, Sedat Gundogdu, Dror Angel, Jaime Ross, Sarah Jeanne-Royer, Zhanfei Liu
Açık Yeşil'de Ümit Şahin ve Ömer Madra, Alexander Clapp'in "Waste Wars - Dirty Deals, International Rivalries and the Scandalous Afterlife of Rubbish" yani "Atık Savaşları" adlı kitabını Çukurova Üniversitesi Su Ürünleri Fakültesi’nden Prof. Dr. Sedat Gündoğdu ile ele aldılar.
Plastiksiz Türkiye Platformu 5 Haziran Dünya Çevre Günü üzerine yaptığı basın açıklamasında “ Türkiye’yi benimsediği pasif tutumu bırakıp, çevresel adaletin ve nesiller arası sorumluluğun gereklerini yerine getirmeye çağırıyoruz.” ifadelerine yer verdi.
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