Oral presentations
Welcome address by Ms Barbara Hendricks
Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Germany
Plastics as a systemic risk of social-ecological supply systems
Dr. Johanna Kramm & Dr. Carolin Völker
ISOE – Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Frankfurt am Main
RIverine and Marine floating macro litter Monitoring and Modelling of Environmental Loading
Daniel Gonzalez and Georg Hanke
European Commission, Join Research Centre
Overview on plastics in European freshwater environments
Georg Reifferscheid, Beate Bänsch-Baltruschat, Nicole Brennholt, Esther Breuninger, Stefanie Hatzky, Christian Kochleus
German Federal Insitute of Hydrology (BfG), Koblenz
Conceptual considerations on the environmental risk assessment of microplastics
K. Duis & A. Coors
ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH, Flörsheim/Main, Germany
In search of microplastics
Anja Verschoor
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
EU activities and plans to address plastics and microplastics in the aquatic environment
Helen Clayton
ENV C1 Water, European Commission
Monitoring activities for plastics in rivers and lakes in Germany
Julia Schwaiger, Peter Diehl, Maren Heß, Kurt Kreimes, Jens Mayer, Harald Rahm, Werner Reifenhäuser & Jan Koschorreck
Bavarian Environment Agency