Earth.com featured research by John Atkinson on the impact of cigarette filters on the microplastics epidemic. 

John Atkinson and Ghazal Vasseghi, CSEE PhD student, are studying the underestimated contribution of cigarette filters to the microplastic epidemic. 

Straight Arrow News quoted John Atkinson in an article about what happens when municipal recycling systems shut down. 

Six students from SEAS participated in a first-of-its-kind study abroad earlier this summer. The students were the first United States cohort to participate in a European Union BEST course, joining European students in Iasi, Romania.

Rochester Beacon listed UB as a partner of a project that has received new federal funding to study the effects of microplastics in the Great Lakes environment across the Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse region.

John Atkinson, Scott and Coleen Stevens Chair in Engineering Sustainability, received the Faculty Award for Sustainability in Higher Education from the University at Buffalo.

Bloomberg quoted John Atkinson in a report that a plastic drop-off program embraced by 12,000 retail locations and more than 500 brands in the U.S. has been putting packaging into landfills.