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Soil Remediation Under Microplastics Pollution

2022
Esperanza Huerta Lwanga, Juan Santos-Echeandía

Summary

While microplastic research has focused heavily on marine environments, agricultural soils are also significantly contaminated, with plastics accumulating from irrigation water, sewage sludge application, and plastic mulch films. Soil remediation strategies for microplastic pollution are urgently needed given that contaminated farmland can transfer particles directly into food crops and groundwater.

The problematic of microplastics pollution in the terrestrial environment has only received attention recently by different sectors of the world society. Although most part of the research has focused in the beaches and oceans, the agricultural sites are the...

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