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Microplastics Hotspots: a New Way of Raising Environmental Awareness
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This is a conference abstract describing an educational project that used microplastic hotspot mapping as a way to raise environmental awareness, presented at an international education conference in 2021. It contains limited methodological or results detail.
Appears in: EDULEARN21 Proceedings Publication year: 2021Pages: 4496-4503ISBN: 978-84-09-31267-2ISSN: 2340-1117doi: 10.21125/edulearn.2021.0940Conference name: 13th International Conference on Education and New Learning TechnologiesDates: 5-6 July, 2021Location: Online Conference
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