{"id":45389,"date":"2024-08-22T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/?p=45389"},"modified":"2026-10-07T10:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:49:26","slug":"rwu-researchers-join-sen-reed-to-advocate-for-strategy-and-action-to-curb-microplastic-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/2024\/08\/22\/rwu-researchers-join-sen-reed-to-advocate-for-strategy-and-action-to-curb-microplastic-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"RWU Researchers Join Sen. Reed to Advocate for Strategy and Action to Curb Microplastic Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"type-intro wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR investigator Lillian Jeznach spoke about her research on microplastic contaminants in Narragansett Bay and the benefits of a new Environmental Engineering and Science Lab, made possible with funding secured by Reed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers from Roger Williams University joined U.S. Senator Jack Reed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EQS1F7uqiJI\">a press conference<\/a> Thursday along the shores of Narragansett Bay to advocate for coordinated action at the local, federal, and global level to tackle plastic waste and pollution including stepped-up research, regulation, and coordinated action around microplastics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with experts from RWU, Save The Bay, and the University of Rhode Island, Reed discussed the threat of microplastics, tiny particles of plastic waste less than 5 millimeters in diameter that pose a significant risk to water quality, human and animal health, and climate and ecosystem stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMicroplastics are a macro, large-scale, global problem.&nbsp;We need comprehensive, coordinated action to help protect people, communities, public health, and environmental health,\u201d said Senator Reed. \u201cI commend the Biden-Harris Administration for spurring other nations to do their part and join the U.S. in tackling plastic pollution.&nbsp;America is working with our partners at the United Nations on a major, evidence-based treaty to rein in contamination from microplastics. Last month, the Biden-Harris Administration released the first comprehensive, government-wide strategy to target plastic pollution at production, processing, use, and disposal.&nbsp;A key part of that plan calls for developing standard methods for collecting, quantifying and characterizing microplastics.&nbsp;This will ensure regulators have good data they can use to set limits on microplastics in our food and water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>This piece was originally published by Roger Williams University on August 22, 2024.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rwu.edu\/news\/news-archive\/rwu-researchers-join-sen-reed-advocate-strategy-and-action-curb-microplastic-pollution\">Read the full story!<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR investigator Lillian Jeznach spoke about her research on microplastic contaminants in Narragansett Bay and the benefits of a new Environmental Engineering and Science Lab, made possible with funding secured by Reed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1994,"featured_media":45390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[981],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-rwu"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45391,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45389\/revisions\/45391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}