On May 20, Saturday evening at 18:00, Sedat Gündoğdu will be the first guest of the Mahsul Meetings. The conversation with Gündoğdu, who has been conducting his scientific studies on Çukurova for many years, will focus on plastic waste in the plain as a neglected crop of industrial agriculture and related industrial productions. We will talk about the traces left by plastic from the environment to the table, plastic landscapes and the journey of plastic as a raw material.

Assoc. Prof. Sedat Gündoğdu works on marine biology at Çukurova University, Faculty of Fisheries. Gündoğdu has numerous studies on the sources of microplastics entering the aquatic environment, their distribution in the aquatic environment, their effects on living organisms and their transfer to the food chain. Dr Gündoğdu, who also provides training on waste management and waste reduction to prevent plastic pollution, has so far conducted studies on microplastic pollution in foods such as table salts, mussels, fish for consumption and fish feeds. He has also been involved in studies on microplastics released from wastewater and distributed on the sea surface and sediment. She is currently researching the sources and distribution of plastic pollution in various ecosystems and the effects of the plastic garbage trade on the ecosystem.