Cambridge Prisms: Plastics invites submissions from the MICRO-24 conference on the theme 'Current and Future Perspectives on Understanding and Tackling Plastic and Microplastic Pollution MICRO 2024'.

The 5th edition of the MICRO Conference ‘MICRO2024 - Plastic Pollution from Macro to Nano’ took place from 23-27th September 20204 in Lanzarote, Spain. The aim of MICRO 2024 was to celebrate the growing community of researchers and policy-makers concerned about the challenge of plastic pollution from macro to nano, with a core focus on microplastics as a means to  (i) Facilitate open access to the breadth of emerging & ongoing research, (ii) Identify current research frontiers and new challenges, and (iii) Contribute a collaborative effort to our continuously expanding community. The conference was a platform for >700 poster and platform presentations covering all aspects of plastic pollution, from natural science to social science. 

Despite the title, this conference brought together researchers and policy-makers working on the full life-cycle of plastic pollution from macroplastics including abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear or Ghost Gear, single-use plastics, plastic waste management to nanoplastics, with a core focus on microplastics.

The MICRO 2024 conference highlighted the breadth of emerging & ongoing plastic and microplastic pollution research. It also identified current research frontiers and new challenges for researchers and policy-makers. The MICRO 2024 conference also helped to foster a collaborative effort between the continuously expanding plastic and microplastic pollution research community. In keeping with the aims of MICRO 2024 to help foster collaborative efforts and dissemination between plastic and microplastic pollution research community we invite contributions from presentations, posters and walking talks from MICRO 2024 to a Collection devoted to current and future perspectives on understanding and tackling plastic and microplastic pollution.

Our priority is the rapid dissemination of your work. We are pleased to publish all accepted articles in Cambridge Prisms: Plastics. Once your article is accepted, it will be published online with a citable DOI within 72 hours, while we finalise the formatting and typesetting for the journal.

Guest Editors:

Andrés Rodríguez- Seijo, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Tony R. Walker, Dalhousie University, Canada
Xavier Cousin, INRAE, MARBEC Unit, France

Submission Deadline: 31st October 2025

We ask all submitting authors to include your presentation number issued by MICRO2024 in an accompanying cover letter.