 I'm Keshma Lai, I'm an international student at the University of Greenwich and I'm studying civil engineering. Born and raised in the UAE, infrastructures all I've seen, skyscrapers, memtised buildings and my father, he has commercial construction projects of his own and we as a family were someone involved and I was all, it was the structural aspect of the civil engineering discipline is something I've always been interested in. My final project is about marco plastics. Marco plastics in the river can arise from multiple sources particularly littering by finding out the plastic content of the water and the sediment of the river. It could especially help in waste management determining and then controlling the marco plastic content in water we could help marine life. So my partner Megan and I along with my supervisor we drove down to the river and we collected multiple soil samples that were later dried and looked at four marco plastics underneath a microscope and we extracted them and we put them onto these little acrylic glass sheets and then we related to typical values taken from previous research and see how we can further improve. So the reason I chose the civil engineering course at the University of Greenwich is because I believe the course is very well rounded, it covers the very vast subject areas of the civil engineering discipline, everything from structure, environment, geotechnics, all of it.