Working with the Port Phillip EcoCentre Baykeeper, we developed three issue papers on microplastic pollution, waste management, and litter related to spider crab aggregation. These materials were based on interviews with key stakeholders and on three focus groups we conducted to initiate local collaboration on these threats to the Bay.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Pope, Julia
• McCasland, Hailey N.
• Dursin, Charles R.
• Laukaitis, John F.

Subject

• Water
• Industry
• Environment
• Inclusion
• Community
• Sustainability

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121120-134934
• 5001

Stichwort

• Waste Management
• EcoCentre
• Issue Papers
• Spider Crab
• Port Phillip Bay
• Microplastics

Advisor

• Higgins, Lorraine D.
• Kumar, Uma T.

Year

• 2020

Center

• Melbourne, Australia Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Port Phillip EcoCentre

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
• 14 - Life Below Water
• 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Date created

• 2020-12-11

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright