Tiny nanoplastic fragments present in soil can make their way into the edible parts of vegetables, research has found. A team of scientists from the University of Plymouth in the UK placed radishes ...

Soil contamination poses a serious threat to both the environment and public health across Europe. In the SOILPROM project, ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics in soils are a growing environmental problem. The extent to which agricultural crops absorb ...

It is a real problem: Microplastic particles are everywhere. Now a team has developed a method that allows it for the first time to precisely localise microplastic particles in the soil. The 3D ...

In agriculture, large quantities of nano- and microplastics end up in the soil through compost, sewage sludge and the use of mulching foils. The plastic particles always carry various pollutants with ...