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ClearPlastic pollution of soils – assessing EU policies for a poorly regulated field
This study assessed the extent to which EU policies protect soils from plastic pollution and found significant regulatory gaps. The analysis revealed that while some command-and-control regulations address specific microplastic entry pathways into soils, overall plastic production continues to increase, and the policies fail to comprehensively limit soil contamination through persistent rebound effects and lacking target stringency.
Agricultural Use of Sewage Sludge as a Threat of Microplastic (MP) Spread in the Environment and the Role of Governance
This study examines how agricultural use of sewage sludge introduces large amounts of microplastics into soil ecosystems. The researchers propose a multi-stakeholder governance strategy for the European Union that balances the benefits of sludge as fertilizer against microplastic contamination, recommending stricter regulations on sludge quality including limits on microplastic content.
Microplastic pollution in terrestrial ecosystems: Global implications and sustainable solutions
This review examines microplastic pollution in terrestrial ecosystems, an area that has received far less attention than ocean plastic pollution despite soil being a major sink for these contaminants. The study covers how microplastics interact with other soil pollutants, affect plant growth and soil health, and discusses both policy solutions and practical removal methods to reduce the amount of microplastics that enter the food chain.
Microplastics in Agricultural Soils: A New Challenge Not Only for Agro-environmental Policy?
This review examines microplastic pollution in agricultural soils, identifying tire wear, mulch films, sewage sludge, and atmospheric deposition as major sources. Agriculture is both a victim and a polluter in the microplastic cycle, and the authors call for dedicated agro-environmental policies to address contamination of farmland soils.
Regulatory and Mitigation Strategies to Combat Microplastic Pollution in Agricultural Ecosystems
This review examined regulatory and mitigation strategies for controlling microplastic pollution in agricultural ecosystems, covering sources from mulch films, sewage sludge, and irrigation water. The authors identified gaps in current regulations and proposed a framework combining source reduction, treatment technologies, and monitoring to protect agricultural soil health.
Microplastics in soil and freshwater: Understanding sources, distribution, potential impacts, and regulations for management
This review synthesizes knowledge on microplastics in soil and freshwater systems, covering their sources, transport mechanisms, ecological and health impacts, and current regulatory frameworks for managing plastic pollution in terrestrial and aquatic environments.
Microplastics in agricultural soils: a new challenge not only for agro-environmental policy?
This review addresses microplastic pollution in agricultural soils, identifying farming practices like mulching and sludge application as significant sources and discussing potential impacts on soil health and food safety. It calls for both policy action and more research on microplastic behavior in terrestrial environments.
Opening Space for Plastics—Why Spatial, Soil and Land Use Data Are Important to Understand Global Soil (Micro)Plastic Pollution
This review evaluates the global database of microplastic pollution in soils, finding major gaps in spatial referencing and land-use documentation across 35 case studies, and argues that better spatial, soil, and land-use data are essential to understanding microplastic cycling and environmental consequences at a global scale.
Mitigation of Microplastics
This book chapter examines strategies for managing and mitigating microplastic contamination in terrestrial environments, covering source reduction, physical removal techniques, bioremediation approaches, and policy frameworks needed to address the scale of soil plastic pollution.
Microplastics: A Review of Policies and Responses
This critical review assembled current knowledge on policies and regulatory responses to plastic pollution globally, including legislative measures, economic instruments, and voluntary commitments. The authors identify a gap between scientific evidence and policy action and call for stronger, more coordinated international governance of plastic pollution.
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.
Investigation of Prevailing Directives Regarding Microplastic Pollution
This review examines prevailing regulations and directives governing microplastic pollution, which enters land and water environments through inadequate plastic waste management and urban wastewater discharge. The authors analyze gaps in current policy frameworks and assess the effectiveness of existing global and regional legislative approaches.
Pay Attention to Research on Microplastic Pollution in Soil for Prevention of Ecological and Food Chain Risks
This review summarizes research on microplastic sources, accumulation, degradation, and ecological effects in agricultural soils, arguing that soil microplastic pollution deserves the same level of attention as marine microplastic pollution. The paper calls for greater investment in understanding how microplastics affect soil organisms, plant health, and food safety in terrestrial food production systems.
Policy Implementation and Management of Microplastics in Freshwater and Soil
This review examines policy failures in managing plastic waste entering freshwater and soil environments, linking inadequate waste collection infrastructure and littering behavior to direct dumping of plastics and their subsequent fragmentation into microplastics in terrestrial and aquatic 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.
Soil under stress: The importance of soil life and how it is influenced by (micro)plastic pollution
This review examines how plastic pollution in soil disrupts soil organisms and microorganisms that regulate essential ecosystem functions, finding that plastic alters soil chemistry, physical structure, and microbial communities in ways that threaten primary production and carbon cycling.
Existence and fate of microplastics in terrestrial environment: A global fretfulness and abatement strategies
This review covers the global spread of microplastics in soils, farmland, and other land environments, finding contamination from sources like sewage sludge, plastic mulch, and irrigation water. The study highlights that terrestrial microplastic pollution may actually be greater than marine pollution and poses risks to soil organisms, crop growth, and human health through the food chain.
The Role of Legislation, Regulatory Initiatives and Guidelines on the Control of Plastic Pollution
This review examines existing plastic pollution regulations globally, finding that despite many proposals and national bans, the overall effectiveness of legislation is unclear and most measures focus narrowly on marine plastics or single-use items. The authors argue that laws often lag behind science and face practical limitations given how deeply embedded plastics are in daily life.
Microplastics pollution modulated by farming regimes under multi-scenarios
Microplastic concentrations in agricultural soils were found to vary with farming regimes, with certain practices under mulching leading to higher accumulation. The study highlights how common agricultural methods contribute to soil microplastic pollution and supports calls for better plastic mulch management.
Governance Strategies for Mitigating Microplastic Pollution in the Marine Environment: A Review
This review assessed the sources, spread, and impacts of microplastic pollution in marine environments and evaluated existing governance strategies for addressing the problem. Researchers found significant gaps in management approaches, including limited community involvement in monitoring and a lack of standardized mitigation strategies for coastal areas. The study calls for stronger policy interventions, more citizen science initiatives, and coordinated international efforts to reduce microplastic pollution in the oceans.
Microplastics analytical challenges and environmental impacts
This book reviewed the growing problem of microplastic pollution in soil and aquatic environments, providing a comprehensive assessment of existing analytical techniques for characterization and quantification alongside regulatory challenges facing plastic recycling and litter reduction.
Environmental fate and impacts of microplastics in soil ecosystems: Progress and perspective
This review summarized knowledge on microplastics in soil environments, covering occurrence across agricultural, industrial, and urban soils, transport pathways, and ecological risks to soil organisms and plant communities. The authors identify key data gaps and methodological challenges that currently limit understanding of microplastic fate and impact in terrestrial systems.
Minimizing Microplastics
This review covers strategies for minimizing microplastic release and contamination in terrestrial environments, examining source reduction measures, physical and biological removal techniques, and the policy actions needed to reduce the scale of MP pollution in soils.
The extent and impacts of soil pollution by microplastics
This study examines the extent and impacts of soil pollution by microplastics, reviewing evidence of how microplastic particles accumulate in terrestrial environments and affect soil ecosystems, organisms, and agricultural systems.