The overall aim of the project will be met by pursuing the following measurable objectives:

• Produce a GIS-based spatial database of municipal and industrial wastes in coastal zones, showing key characteristics (e.g. size, type) and generic risks associated with them, including site-specific concerns, so that wastes can be prioritized according to their potential hazard
  
  
• Evaluate legacy waste environmental risks to the coastal zone, including mechanisms of pollutant release and environmental pathways, complexities associated with pollutants moving across the freshwater-seawater interface, and likely ecological impacts of these pollutants
  
  
• Reconcile results of lab-based experiments with real world observations through field-based regional investigations of the full breadth of legacy waste types
  
  
• Experimentally determine potential impacts of climate change on pollution risk due to legacy wastes, via multi-scale lab investigations and state-of-the-art hydrological modelling
  
  
• Co-develop, with government and regulatory partners, policy and management recommendations, including appropriate remedial technologies for legacy waste pollutant hot spots and options for resource recovery from waste