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Microplastics and Materialising Health
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This is a webinar announcement describing a session on the interdependence between everyday materials and individual and collective health, with microplastics as a key topic. It does not contain primary research data.
This webinar illuminates the interdependence between the materials which surround us in daily life and our health, individually and collectively
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