Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP220100218
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Microplastics in Landfills and Surrounding Environments. This project aims to build a risk-based framework for managing micro- and nano-plastic particles in landfills and surrounding environments. It expects to develop a new experimentally validated theory of micro/nano-plastic transport in soils, focussing on lining systems used in landfills worldwide to protect aquifers from contamination. The project will use state-of-the-art experimental, theoretical and computational approaches to generate new knowledge on micro/nano-plastic fate in lining systems and their effects on the mobility of heavy metals and organic pollutants. This should provide significant benefits including safe plastic containment and groundwater protection from landfill waste, a major reservoir of plastic in the environment.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2022
End Date: 07-2026
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $554,500.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Civil Engineering | Civil Geotechnical Engineering
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Urban and Industrial Water Management | Urban and Industrial Soils | Physical and Chemical Conditions of Water for Urban and Industrial Use |
