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Occurrence of Microplastics and Heavy Metals in Aquatic and Agroecosystem: A Case Study

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 2022 9 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count. Score: 35 ? 0–100 AI score estimating relevance to the microplastics field. Papers below 30 are filtered from public browse.
Tanveer Ahmad, Muhammad Amjad, Qumer Iqbal, Asmat Batool, Anam Noor, Muhammad Jafir, Hammad Hussain, Hammad Hussain, Muhammad Irfan

Summary

Researchers investigated microplastic and heavy metal co-contamination in Pakistani farmland, collecting wastewater, soil, and vegetable samples from four sites in Faisalabad irrigated with raw effluents. They found average soil microplastic abundance of 2790.75 items/kg and identified chromium as the dominant metal with the highest transfer factor, establishing baseline contamination benchmarks for this agroecosystem.

Study Type Environmental

A case study was conducted to evaluate the microplastics and heavy metals distribution in Pakistani farmland. Wastewater, soil, and vegetable samples were collected from four locations that received raw effluents for irrigation in the Faisalabad district. The average MPs abundances found in soil was 2790.75 items/kg, FSD-S has higher MPs (3865 items/kg) which is almost 34.62% from the total. However, the highest metal pollution (3.666 mg/kg) was recorded in the FSD-E zone, Cr showed the highest transfer factor about 34.24% in FSD-N in comparison with other sites. This research establishes a benchmark for estimating the environmental harm posed by microplastics and heavy metals in this rapidly emerging field of study.

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