Innovation Testing
Test Your Solution
Are you a scientist, engineer, marketer, biologist, maker, artist or innovator with a radical solution to microfiber pollution? Ocean Wise can help test radical solutions in our Plastics Lab verifying and giving credibility to its effectiveness.
The Ocean Wise Plastics Lab is an Environmental Microplastics Facility that delivers cutting-edge technical insight into the source, transport, fate and effects related to microplastics in Canada’s aquatic environments.
With dedicated research staff the lab utilizes state-of-the-art analytical techniques and instrumentation including a high-resolution Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometer capable of identifying the composition of microplastic particles as small as 5 microns in size.
The lab specializes in the study of microplastics occurrence in laundry machine outflow, seawater, municipal wastewater and the stomachs and organs of aquatic animals.
