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ClearA review of microplastics in soil: Occurrence, analytical methods, combined contamination and risks
This review provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution in soil ecosystems, covering sources, detection methods, and ecological impacts. Researchers found that soils are major reservoirs for microplastics, and the study highlights how combined contamination with other pollutants like heavy metals and pesticides may amplify risks to soil organisms and food safety.
Microplastics in soils: A comprehensive review
This comprehensive review summarizes what is known about microplastics in soil, covering their sources from agriculture, household waste, and industry, as well as how they move through and accumulate in different soil types. The review finds that current methods for measuring soil microplastics are inconsistent, making it difficult to accurately assess the true scale of contamination and its risks to food safety and human health.
A review of soil pollution, causes, and health effects
This review summarized the causes, extent, and health effects of soil pollution, covering both natural and anthropogenic sources including industrial activity, agriculture, and urbanization. The paper discussed how soil contamination degrades agricultural productivity, contaminates water resources, and poses direct risks to human health.
Paving the way toward soil safety and health: current status, challenges, and potential solutions
This review examines the global threats to soil health from industrial chemical contamination and explores potential solutions including monitoring, advanced remediation technologies, and holistic soil management. While covering soil pollution broadly, it is relevant to microplastics because they are a major and growing soil contaminant that is extremely difficult to remove once introduced. The review emphasizes that preventing pollutants from entering soil is far more effective and less costly than trying to clean up contamination afterward.
Beneath the Surface: Unmasking the Global Crisis of Soil Pollution
This review examines soil pollution as a global crisis driven by industrial emissions, intensive agriculture, and poor waste management, covering how heavy metals, pesticides, microplastics, and emerging contaminants accumulate in soils, degrade microbial communities, reduce crop yields, and enter the food chain.
Agricultural Environmental Pollution, Risk Assessment, and Control
This book chapter reviews the growing burden of agricultural environmental pollution — from pesticide residues to microplastics and heavy metals — and evaluates risk assessment frameworks and control strategies for protecting soil health and food safety.
Soil Environment Pollution with Microplastic, Influence Factors and Environmental Risks
This review synthesizes research on microplastic contamination of soil environments, covering the major sources of soil microplastics, factors influencing their accumulation and distribution, and the environmental risks they pose to terrestrial ecosystems and agriculture.
Microplastics as an Emerging Environmental Pollutant in Agricultural Soils: Effects on Ecosystems and Human Health
This review examines how microplastics enter and move through agricultural soil ecosystems, affecting soil properties, nutrient cycling, and the organisms that live in and depend on healthy soil. Researchers found that microplastics can alter key biogeochemical processes and interact with co-existing pollutants like heavy metals and pesticides, potentially compounding their harmful effects. The study highlights the need for prevention and control strategies as microplastic contamination of farmland becomes an increasingly recognized environmental and potential human health concern.
Research of New Pollutant Microplastics in Soil
This review summarizes microplastic pollution in agricultural soils, covering sources, abundance, transport pathways, and interactions with heavy metals and organic pollutants. The authors highlight that soil microplastic contamination is a growing threat to food security and soil ecosystem health.
Source, migration and toxicology of microplastics in soil
This review compiles research on the sources, movement, and toxic effects of microplastics in soil ecosystems, an area that has received less attention than aquatic pollution. Researchers describe how microplastics enter soil through agricultural practices, wastewater, and atmospheric deposition, then transfer through food chains to affect organisms at multiple levels. The study identifies major knowledge gaps and proposes management strategies to mitigate the ecological and human health risks of soil microplastic contamination.
Integrated Monitoring, Remediation and Management of Soil Pollution: A Comprehensive Review
This research review summarizes the latest methods for finding, cleaning up, and managing polluted soil that can harm human health through contaminated food and water. The study highlights that newer pollutants like microplastics and "forever chemicals" (PFAS) are especially hard to remove from soil using traditional cleanup methods. The authors argue that we need better, combined approaches to monitor and clean up soil pollution to protect our food supply and health.
A review of microplastics in the soil environment
This review summarizes the current state of knowledge about microplastic contamination in soil environments, covering sources, distribution, and effects on soil organisms and ecosystems. The study highlights that while aquatic microplastic research is more advanced, soil contamination poses significant but understudied risks to terrestrial ecosystems and food production.
A discussion of microplastics in soil and risks for ecosystems and food chains
This review examines how microplastics accumulate in soils through agricultural practices, landfills, and wastewater, posing risks to ecosystems and food chains. Researchers found that while marine microplastic pollution has been well studied, terrestrial contamination remains poorly understood despite soil receiving more plastic waste than oceans. The study highlights how microplastics can alter soil properties, harm soil organisms, and potentially transfer through the food chain to humans.
Sources, pollution, and ecological impacts of soil microplastics-A review
A comprehensive review summarized the sources, distribution, and ecological impacts of microplastics in soil environments, synthesizing evidence on how plastics affect soil organisms, structure, and agricultural productivity. The review calls for urgent policy action to address soil microplastic contamination as a threat to food security.
Microplastics' Ecotoxicological Assessment and Quantification in the Soil Ecosystem
This review examines the ecotoxicological effects and quantification methods for microplastics in soil ecosystems, synthesizing studies that have detected microplastics in agricultural soils, remote terrestrial environments, and other soil types to assess risks to soil-dwelling organisms.
Traversing the prevalence of microplastics in soil-agro ecosystems: Origin, occurrence, and pollutants synergies
This review comprehensively examines microplastic contamination in soil and agricultural ecosystems, covering their origins from sources like plastic mulch, sewage sludge, and irrigation water. Researchers analyzed how microplastics interact synergistically with other pollutants including heavy metals and pesticides in soil environments. The study highlights that the long-term implications of microplastic accumulation in agricultural soils remain uncertain and warrant further investigation to protect food safety.
Microplastics in Agricultural Soils: An Emerging Threat to Soil Health, Microbial Ecology, Crop Productivity, and Food Safety
This review examines how microplastics accumulate in agricultural soils from sources like plastic mulch, sewage sludge, and atmospheric deposition. Researchers found that these particles can disrupt soil microbial communities, harm plant health, and potentially enter the human food chain. The study highlights the urgent need for mitigation strategies to address this growing but often overlooked form of pollution in farmland.
Environmental Risk and Management of Microplastics in Soil
This review examines microplastic contamination in soils, covering primary and secondary sources including plastic mulch, organic fertilizers, cosmetics, and tire wear, and assessing how microplastics alter soil physiochemical properties, nutrient cycling, and soil biota. The authors discuss environmental risk and management strategies for reducing microplastic impacts on terrestrial ecosystems.
Soil Microplastic Pollution and its Remediation: An Overview
This overview reviews the scope of microplastic pollution in soils globally, summarizing contamination sources, effects on soil ecosystems, and available remediation strategies including physical, chemical, and biological approaches to address this emerging environmental problem.
How microplastics are destroying soil and human health
This review examined how microplastics harm soil health — disrupting soil structure, water retention, microbial communities, and nutrient cycling — and how soil degradation translates into risks for human health through food and water contamination. It argues that soil microplastic pollution deserves equivalent attention to aquatic contamination.
A brief outlook on soil pollution and its control measures
This review examined soil pollution causes, consequences, and control measures, covering contamination from pesticides, herbicides, petroleum hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and other chemical sources from both human activities and natural processes. The review assessed impacts on plant productivity, soil quality, groundwater quality, and human health, along with remediation strategies.
Microplastic Pollution in the Soil Environment: Characteristics, Influencing Factors, and Risks
This review systematically examined the characteristics, influencing factors, and environmental risks of microplastic pollution in soil environments. The study notes that compared to aquatic systems, research on soil microplastics is relatively lacking, and highlights that agricultural practices, waste disposal, and atmospheric deposition are major pathways for microplastic entry into soils.
Interactions of Microplastics Toward an Ecological Risk in Soil Diversity
This review examines the ecological risks of microplastics in soil environments, discussing their sources, global distribution, mechanisms of entry into soil food webs, effects on microbial communities and soil fauna, biomagnification through trophic levels, and implications for soil ecosystem services and biodiversity.
Soil pollution in the European Union – An outlook
This review assesses the state of soil pollution across the European Union, finding that contamination from heavy metals, pesticides, and emerging pollutants like microplastics is widespread but poorly monitored. The authors call for standardized measurement methods and updated regulations, noting that soil pollution can affect human health through contaminated crops and drinking water.