The team of the Chemistry Department participated in the final conference of the project "Agricultural Residues and Plastic Waste Materials as a Sustainable Source of Alternative Fuels and Valuable Chemicals" (AGRIPLAST), which was held from April 8 to 10 in Sombor. This project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), deals with the chemical characterization and valorization of agricultural and plastic waste, according to the principles of the circular economy.
At the conference that brought together researchers from Serbia, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia, Prof. Milica Balaban held an invited lecture entitled "Microplastics as a carrier of pollutants in the environment". Also, in the part of the conference that was dedicated to the elaboration of possibilities for continuing the activity, Sanja Pržulj, senior teaching assistant and Dejana Savić, teaching assistant, presented the situation and perspectives in the Republika Srpska on the topic of plastic waste and waste from the food industry.