Day 1 Tuesday, 21 June 2016
09.00 Reception and coffee
10.00 Welcome address
Barbara Hendricks, Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Germany
10.20 EU activities and plans to address plastics and microplastics in the aquatic environment
Helen Clayton, EU Commission - DG Environment
10.40 Plastics in Freshwater Environments: from monitoring to management options – how can we get there?
Lilian Busse, German Environment Agency
11.00 Keynote: How concerned should we be about plastic debris in freshwater systems?
Richard Thompson, Plymouth University, United Kingdom
Session 1 Monitoring
11.30 Overview on plastics in European freshwater environments
Georg Reifferscheid, German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG)
12.00 Lunch break
13.00 Monitoring activities for plastics in rivers and lakes in Germany
Julia Schwaiger, Environment Agency Bavaria
13.20 Panel discussion on monitoring
• Myra van der Meulen, Deltares (tbc)
• Christian Laforsch, University of Bayreuth
• Bruno Tassin, University of Paris-Est
• Anne Marie Mahon, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
• Florian Faure, ETH Lausanne
• Georg Reifferscheid, BfG
Moderation:
Philipp Hohenblum, Richard Thompson
14.00 Coffee break
Session 2 Sources and risk characterisation
14.40 Sources of microplastics
Anja Verschoor, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands
15.00 Effects of plastics on freshwater organisms
Heather Leslie, VU University Amsterdam
15.20 Conceptual considerations on the environmental risk assessment of plastics
Karen Duis, ECT Oekotoxikologie
15.40 Monitoring of riverine litter - options and recommendations
Georg Hanke, Joint Research Centre
16.00 Discussion and summary of day 1
16.30 Poster session
Day 2 Wednesday, 22 June 2016
09.00 Keynote: Plastics and society
Anthony Andrady, North Carolina State University, USA
Sesssion 3 Management options
09.30 Monitoring and Modelling of Riverine and Marine floating macro litter (RIMMEL)
Daniel Gonzalez, European Commission - DG JRC
09.45 Citizen science for riverine monitoring
Jean-Baptiste Dussaussois, Surfrider Foundation Europe
10.05 Trashbusters H2O - crash the trash! A youth project for clean waters
Elena Lange, Youth Association for the Protection of Nature (NAJU)
10.25 Plastics as a systemic risk of socio-environmental supply systems
Carolin Völker, ISOE, Frankfurt/Main
10.45 The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics
Michiel De Smet, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
11.05 Coffee break
11.45 European overview on management options and measures in place for plastics in freshwater environments
Philipp Hohenblum, Environment Agency Austria
12.05 Regional Action Plans to combat marine litter including input from rivers
Stefanie Werner, German Environment Agency
12.25 Chances and limitations of standardisation for managing plastics in the environment
Rüdiger Baunemann, Plastics Europe
12.45 Discussion on management options
13.15 Conclusions of the conference
• Helen Clayton
• Richard Thompson
• Anthony Andrady
Moderation: Lilian Busse
14.00 End of conference
