Microplastics, an Invisible Threat to our Ecosystem

Panelists: Dr. Sumit Sharma, Programme Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Nandini Kumar, Consultant, CII-ITC Centre for Excellence for Sustainable Development; Dr. Shukla Pal Mitra, Director, National Productivity Council (NPC), Delhi; and Anand Bodh, Co-founder, Dharaksha Ecosolutions

Chair: Ravi Agarwal, Founder Director, Toxics Link

Microplastics is a global environmental concern that has the power to threaten marine life as well as freshwater organisms for decades and centuries and has the potential to poison the entire food chain. Considered global pollutants, microplastics can also act as vectors for spreading toxic chemical additives. Do we understand its real impact on human health and overall ecology? Do we still have time to stop its spread and mitigate the existing contamination of the ecosystem?

(Collaboration: Toxics Link)