December 16, 2021
By Lorri Epstein, Water Quality Director
On December 15, 2021, Columbia Riverkeeper hosted “Microplastics & the Columbia River,” a webinar with Kirsten Kapp. She shared her groundbreaking research on microplastic pollution in the Columbia River and helped us understand the sources and impacts of microplastics and what we can do about it.
Check out the recorded webinar here and share it with your friends:
Know a student who would be interested in this? Check out and share our Microplastic Pollution Prevention curriculum for information and hands-on activities about the issues related to plastic consumption and how plastic pollution impacts the Columbia River. You can also check out our microplastics fact sheet in English or Spanish to learn more about this issue.
Thanks for learning with us and helping to keep the Columbia clean!
This webinar has been funded wholly or in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under assistance agreement RB 01J73501 to Columbia Riverkeeper. The contents of this webinar do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Research described in this presentation was supported by the National Institute Of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P20GM103432. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.