Papers

The mini review of sustainable urban environment and emerging contaminants

Role of tillage measures in mitigating waterlogging damage in rapeseed

This paper is not relevant to microplastics; it studies tillage methods for reducing waterlogging damage to rapeseed crops.

Integration of PMF and explainable machine learning for source apportionment and ecological risk of microplastics in urban greenspaces

Researchers applied positive matrix factorisation (PMF) and explainable machine learning to investigate microplastic distribution, source apportionment, and ecological risk in urban greenspaces, finding abundances of 141-1,258 items/kg dominated by polypropylene (32.6%), polyethylene (27.9%), and PET (12.0%) fragments smaller than 100 µm. Agricultural activities (29.6%), mixed domestic-industrial emissions (24.1%), and traffic-related sources (23.5%) were the primary contributors, with ecological risk projected to reach moderate levels by 2030.