Dick Vethaak

Professor Dr. Dick Vethaak is an ecotoxicologist and emeritus professor of water quality and health at Vrije Universiteit, in Amsterdam, and currently co-coordinates the Dutch Momentum project on microplastics and health at Utrecht University.

A female delegate wearing a long sleeved black dress a blue surgical mask looks at a 30-foot sculpture made out of plastic bottles resembling a faucet, outside the UN Environment Programme Headquarters, in Nairobi, Kenya
Environment

The Emerging Health Crisis of Microplastic Debris

by Dick Vethaak, Concepción Martínez-Gómez

Microplastics are everywhere, including our bodies