Plastic Underground: Integrated Cross-Sectoral Solutions to Micro- and Nanoplastic Pollution in Soil and Groundwater Ecosystems

最近有证据表明，土壤和地下水中微米和纳米塑料(MNP)的积累越来越多，这引起了农业和水务行业、食品制造商、监管机构、环境利益集团和公民的严重关切。私营和公共部门需要详细了解土壤和地下水中MNP造成的环境和公共健康风险。塑料地下博士网络建立了分析土壤和地下水中MNP的去向、迁移和影响的跨学科跨部门能力，以制定减少其环境和公共健康风险的解决方案，支持欧共体的循环塑料经济战略。塑料地下博士网络的中心目标是通过一个关于解决土壤和地下水地下生态系统中新出现的MNP污染危机的整体、跨学科和跨部门的研究和培训网络，提供国际卓越的科学成果，整合跨越传统学科界限的知识，使公共和私营部门受益。跨学科研究方案包括为10名早期研究人员(ESRS)提供独特的培训机会(外加1名通过ETHZ作为联系国伙伴单独资助的研究人员)，这些研究人员涉及环境和社会科学、生态毒理学、土壤科学和水生生态学、分析化学、农学、数据科学和数值模拟以及负责任的创新、用于监管决策和风险评估的方法标准化。综合培训方案将使ESRS具备农业、水、化工和制造业、环境和监管机构、学术界以及公共部门迫切需要的技能，并包括关键利益攸关方提供的培训，这些培训将直接受益于该网络中的培训。

Recent evidence of increasing accumulation of micro- and nanoplastics (MnP) in soils and groundwater raise severe concerns by agricultural and water industries, food manufacturers, regulators, environmental interest groups and citizens. Private and public sectors require detailed understanding of environmental and public health risks posed by MnP in soils and groundwater. The PlasticUnderground Doctoral Network creates supra-disciplinary intersectoral capacity for analysing the fate, transport and impacts of MnP in soils and groundwater to develop solutions for reducing their environmental and public health risks, supporting the EC's circular plastic economy strategy. The central aim of the PlasticUnderground Doctoral Network is to deliver international scientific excellence through a holistic supra-disciplinary and inter-sectoral research and training network on solutions to the emerging crisis of MnP pollution in subsurface ecosystems in soils and groundwater, integrating knowledge across traditional discipline boundaries to benefit the public and private sectors. The supra-disciplinary research programme includes unique training opportunities for a cohort of 10 Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) (plus one individually funded through ETHZ as Associated Country partner) in environmental and social science, ecotoxicology, soil science and aquatic ecology, analytical chemistry, agronomy, data science and numerical modelling as well as responsible innovation, method standardization for use in regulatory decision making and risk assessment. The integrated training programme will prepare ESRs with skill sets that are urgently required in agricultural, water, chemical, and manufacturing industries, environmental and regulatory agencies, academia, and the public sector and includes training provision by key stakeholders that will directly benefit from the training in this network.