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Macro to Micro: Anthropogenic Litter Accumulation in Urban Restored Floodplains and Their Subsequent Topsoil Microplastic Pollution
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
2024
Stockton G. Barnett
Summary
Researchers studied how litter accumulates in urban floodplains and breaks down into microplastics in topsoil, finding that restored natural areas near cities are still vulnerable to plastic contamination. This suggests ecological restoration alone is insufficient without addressing upstream plastic waste at its source.
Plastics are pervasive anthropogenic pollutants found in ecosystems worldwide. ...