Plastic waste can not only lead to physical impacts, like entanglement or ingestion, but it is suspected, that it can also lead to toxic impacts. In this publication, Naiara Casagrande, affiliated with the ATLANTIS project, has developed effect factors for additives that are used in plastic products. The results of

Francesca Verones was selected as lead author for the upcoming IPBES report on Biodiversity and business.  This report aims to provide an assessment of the impacts, as well as the dependence, that businesses and biodiversity have. The goal is to identify methods and indicators with which these impacts can be

Polymers have transformed our lives. We have been benefiting from them since approximately 1600 BC when natural rubber was first discovered[1]. A polymer is a material that consists of many repeated smaller subunits known as monomers. The way these monomers are arranged results in the formation of different kinds

EcoBalance is a conference held in Japan every second year since 1994, it has a strong focus on LCA and its application in industries. This year, the 15th EcoBalance, was hosted in Fukuoka, and themed ´Shifting Paradigms with Life Cycle Thinking´. Two members from the ATLANTIS project, me (Fei Song)

The ATLANTIS team organized the 82nd Swiss LCA discussion forum

Naiara Casagrande, who is affiliated with ATLANTIS, attended the 7th International Marine Debris Conference (7IMDC) with a group of research from NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal. The conference took place from the 18th to the 23rd of September 2022 in Busan, Republic of Korea. This was the first to be

Several members of the ATLANTIS project attended the SETAC Europe 32nd annual meeting in Copenhagen this year. We presented our recent progress in the development of characterisation factors for life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) and the MarINvaders toolkit and database, meanwhile we were inspired by other researchers and met associates