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The research team

eight people, one open problem

A student research team investigating microplastic release from Ibaraki's landfills — from field sampling and microscopy to modelling and visualisation.

how we work

The team is organised around the problem, not around titles. Roles rotate: whoever collects a sample also learns to count it under the microscope, and whoever builds the model also has to defend its assumptions. Everything we publish states its limits openly — our figures are estimates, and we say so.