the basis of the United Kingdom law that bans microbeads, which protects the environment from several thousand tonnes of microbeads every year. So far, she has found microplastics in every seawater sample that she has analysed. Galloway provided evidence to a cross-party committee on the environment. Her research was used in the Government of the United Kingdom report A Green Future: Our 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment. Galloway worked with Zero Plastic Waste and Policy Connect to investigate how it would be possible to eliminate plastic waste from the United Kingdom. She is a member of the Science Advice for Policy by European Academies group on microplastics in nature. Galloway served on the advisory board of Blue Planet II. She is on the editorial board of Chemosphere. Awards and honours 2018 The Guardian University Awards 2018 Natural Environment Research Council Impact Award 2019 Order of the British Empire Volvo Environment Prize (2022) Selected publications References Living people Academics of the University of Exeter Alumni of the University of Glasgow Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Women biochemists British women chemists Officers of the Order of the British Empire Year of birth missing (living people)