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Microplastics in Soil-Plant Systems

Environmental chemistry for a sustainable world 2023 1 citation ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Ayush Lepcha, Vivek Manyapu, Ashif Ali, Sanjeev Sharma, Krishna Kanta Pandey, Rakshak Kumar

Summary

This review synthesized evidence on microplastic contamination in terrestrial soil-plant systems, examining effects on soil structure, nutrient cycling, microbial communities, and plant uptake of plastic particles. Because plants can absorb microplastics and translocate them into edible tissue, agricultural soil contamination represents a direct and underappreciated pathway of human dietary exposure to plastic particles.

The amount of plastic waste, has crossed 350 million tonnes, inducing pollution of most ecosystems by macro and microplastics. Here we review microplastic pollution in terrestrial systems with focus on effect of microplastics on soil properties, pollutants and plant...

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