Address
Heidelberg University
Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, 4/325
69120 Heidelberg
Germany

Contact
Uliana Kachnova
uliana.kachnova@uni-heidelberg.de

The Power of Local Voices

Real change starts with the people who live and work beside the water. TULIP invites neighbourhood associations, fish-farm cooperatives, school groups and municipal planners to sit at the same table as microbiologists and hydrologists. Together they decide what needs to be measured, where to collect samples and which solutions fit local realities.

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The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics

Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losses exceeding US$1·5 trillion annually. These impacts fall disproportionately upon low-income and at-risk populations. The principal driver of this crisis is accelerating growth in plastic production—from 2 megatonnes (Mt) in 1950, to 475 Mt in 2022 that is projected to be 1200 Mt by 2060. Plastic pollution has also worsened, and 8000 Mt of plastic waste now pollute the planet.

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