Recent Advances in Volatile Organic Compounds, Heavy Metals, Microplastics, and Solid Wastes in Ecosystems

This Research Topic is Volume II of a series. The previous volume can be found here: Recent Research Advances on Heavy Metals, Microplastics, Persistent Organic Pollutants, and Solid Waste in Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems. From the local to the global scale, with the steady progress of industrialization and urbanization, many human activities, including mining activities (such as mining and smelting), agricultural activities (such as fertilization, sewage irrigation, plastic mulching), industrial activities (such as petrochemical process, pharmaceutical process, industrial coating, waste incineration, coal burning) and daily life (such as domestic sewage, plastic bag use, daily waste), have greatly contributed to volatile organic compounds, heavy metals, microplastics, and solid wastes pollution. The accumulation of volatile organic compounds, heavy metals, microplastics, and solid wastes in air, water, and land from human sources may pose a high environmental risk to wildlife, crops, or human health. This has attracted more and more attention from the public all over the world. It is urgent to conduct in-depth research on the air, water, and land polluted by volatile organic compounds, heavy metals, microplastics, and solid wastes to seek environmentally frie...