A report on the ‘Clean Coast’ clean-up campaign featured on the RTV programme ‘Dober dan’
The Slovenian Water Institute presented the ‘Clean Coast’ clean-up campaign on the programme ‘Dober dan’.
Final registrations for the ‘Clean Coast 2019’ clean-up campaign
This year marks the 10th time we’ll be coming together for the ČISTA OBALA clean-up campaign,
to clean up the Slovenian coastline together.
Sign up for the ‘Clean Coast 2019’ clean-up campaign
To help us organise the event, registration is required at:
uros.robic@izvrs.si by 11:00 on 19 September 2019 at the latest. Upon registration, volunteers will receive further instructions and additional information about the event itself.
Are microplastics in drinking water (harmless) to health?
At the Slovenian Water Institute, we issued a statement on the harmful effects of microplastics on human health. The report was broadcast on the Dnevnik programme on 22 August 2019.
Collaboration between IzVRS and the Jožef Stefan Institute, the Faculty of Biotechnology and Gorenje
The Slovenian Water Institute, in collaboration with the Jožef Stefan Institute, the Faculty of Biotechnology, Department of Biology, and Gorenje, as a co-funding partner, has successfully submitted a research project to the ARRS entitled ‘Degradation of textile microplastics from domestic wastewater’.
Invitation to the ‘Clean Coast 2019’ clean-up campaign
‘Clean Coast’ is a clean-up campaign taking place across Slovenia’s coastal municipalities, now in its tenth year; as well as cleaning up the coastline, it aims to raise public awareness with a view to reducing the amount of new waste entering the marine environment.