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Plastic Contamination in Waste-to-Resource Agriculture: Plastic Particles' FTIR Spectra

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2026
Franja Prosenc, Pia Leban, Urška Šunta, Darja Istenič

Summary

Scientists analyzed hundreds of tiny plastic fragments found in soil, compost, and algae used in farming to figure out exactly what types of plastic they were made of. This matters because when we recycle waste into fertilizer or animal feed, plastic contamination can hitch a ride into our food system, and knowing which plastics are showing up is the first step toward understanding potential risks to our health and figuring out how to keep them out of what we eat.

This dataset (356 spectra, .csv format) contains FTIR spectra and associated OpenSpecy match metadata for plastic particles isolated from soil, compost, and algal biomass samples. It accompanies the publication "Plastic Contamination in Waste-to-Resource Agriculture". It provides the raw spectral data and library-matching metadata (e.g., polymer identity, match confidence) that support the polymer identifications reported in the paper.

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