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Microplastics pollution modulating soil biological health – A review
Soil Use and Management2025
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Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Anamika Shrivastava,
Manish Kumar,
Manish Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Manish Kumar,
Manish Kumar,
Manish Kumar,
Manish Kumar,
Mala C. Hettiarachchi,
Mala C. Hettiarachchi,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Manish Kumar,
Shailja Sharma,
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Santanu Mukherjee,
Manish Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Manish Kumar,
Shiv Bolan,
Shiv Bolan,
Shailja Sharma,
Shiv Bolan,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Rakesh Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Rakesh Kumar,
Manish Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Santanu Mukherjee,
Shiv Bolan,
Shiv Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Rakesh Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Manish Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Manish Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Santanu Mukherjee,
Santanu Mukherjee,
Shiv Bolan,
Manish Kumar,
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Nanthi Bolan,
Rakesh Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Rakesh Kumar,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Anamika Shrivastava,
Santanu Mukherjee,
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Mala C. Hettiarachchi,
Mala C. Hettiarachchi,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Nanthi Bolan,
Nanthi Bolan,
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Manish Kumar,
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Summary
This review summarizes how microplastics enter agricultural soil through recycled water, fertilizer made from sewage, and plastic mulch, and how they affect the organisms that keep soil healthy. Microplastics can carry chemical additives and environmental pollutants that harm soil bacteria, fungi, and invertebrates. These disruptions to soil health could affect crop growth and food quality, creating an indirect pathway for microplastics to impact human nutrition.
Abstract Microplastics (MPs) reach the soil environment through the application of recycled water, biosolids, and compost and the in‐situ weathering of plastic mulch used in agriculture. This review provides an overview of the sources of MP input to soil and their interactions with soil biota, thereby impacting soil biological health. MPs contain various chemical additives and can be ingested by soil biota, thereby impacting their activity and function. MPs also serve as a vector for inorganic and organic contaminants. These chemical additives and environmental contaminants can be released into soil porewater during the weathering of MPs in soil and impact soil biota. Overall, MPs can also alter soil's physical and chemical properties thereby impacting the habitat for soil microorganisms. Soil microorganisms can use MPs as a carbon source and porous habitat for proliferation. Future research needs to focus on the genomic and functional diversity of soil microbes as impacted by MP contamination, thereby enabling us to develop strategies to mitigate the impacts of MP on soil biological health.