Tiny Threats, Little Known

"I was standing there looking out at this gorgeous view of the Andaman Sea, and then I looked down and beneath my feet were all these pieces of plastic, most of them water bottles," she says.

"I've always had a passion for waste reduction, but I realized that this was a problem with consumption."

Sajedi, BSc '91, decided to return to Concordia to pursue a Ph.D. with a focus on plastic waste. As the co-founder of ERA Environmental Management Solutions, a leading provider of environmental, health and safety software, she brought decades of experience to complement her studies.

Her latest paper, published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, looks at the science around the health risks posed by single-use plastic water bottles. They are serious, she says, and seriously understudied.

See all her work here in this Free PDF for you to educate yourself on the realities of plastics, microplastics and how its slowly destroying the planet by our daily consumption.

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