Passamaïnty middle school students contribute to research on microplastics - Mayotte Hebdo

Since 2022, researchers from the Marseille Institute for Research and Development (IRD) have been working on the presence of microplastics in the Mayotte lagoon through the Plasma project. One phase of this study involves involving students in sampling, such as this Wednesday with middle school students from Passamaïnty. Researchers from the Marseille Institute for Research and Development (IRD) are back in the classrooms of the Passamaïnty midd…

The feet in the water, bottle by bottle, the students take samples from the river before pouring them into a plastic tube with two sieves, trapping the sediments and especially the microplastics. For about ten minutes, this Wednesday 26 March in the morning, nearly 120 litres of water from the river Gouloué are filtered by a 6th class of Ouvimoja College in Passamainty. A sampling they will then examine using microscopes to assess the pollution …