The NERC-funded Large Grant: Legacy Waste in the Coastal Zone: Environmental Risks and Management Futures’ began in January 2020 and will run for 4 years until 2024. The project will undertake a coordinated approach to comprehensively investigate the spatial extent, characteristics, and physical and biogeochemical behaviour of municipal and industrial legacy wastes across the UK.
Former mines on Cornwall’s west coast. Areas like this may be eroding wastes into the coastal zone.
