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Microplastics in Soil: Unveiling the Threat Within the Earth’s Crucial Ecosystem
Summary
Researchers surveyed the sources, ecological impacts, and remediation strategies for microplastic contamination in soil, revealing that agricultural practices, plastic mulch, sewage sludge application, and atmospheric deposition are primary pathways loading microplastics into terrestrial ecosystems. Soil microplastics threaten plant health, soil microbiome function, and food security while serving as a vector carrying toxic additives and pathogens up the food chain to humans.
Plastic particles smaller than 5 mm in size are known as microplastics, which are considered as major global environmental contaminants affecting many different ecosystems. The sources, impacts, and possible remediation techniques of microplastics in solid...