Unraveling consequences of soil micro- and nano-plastic pollution on soil-plant system: Implications for nitrogen (N) cycling and soil microbial activity

Management of plastic waste: A bibliometric mapping and analysis

“…Several authors highlight the consequences of the presence of microplastics in different environments, such as soil (Crossman et al, 2020; Iqbal et al, 2020; Kumar et al, 2020; Zhou et al, 2020), coral island (Patti et al, 2020), beach (Garcés-Ordóñez et al, 2020), sea (Garofalo et al, 2020; Ory et al, 2020; Petroody et al, 2020), lake (Egessa et al, 2020), river (Amrutha and Warrier, 2020), and wetland (Andrea et al, 2020). However, according to Zhou et al (2020), the research of microplastics in the environment is still in its infancy.…”

Major contaminants of emerging concern in soils: a perspective on potential health risks

“… 131 Alarmingly, the agricultural lands are becoming the hotspots for MNPs; different regions and annual loading of MNPs are as follows: Europe (∼63 000–430 000 tons), America (∼44 000–300 000 tons), and Australia (∼2800–19 000 tons). 132 Therefore, trophic transfer of MNPs becomes one of the possible routes of human exposure to MNPs. Yet, the research on the transfer pathways is in infancy, which is attributed to two principal reasons: (i) there is no validated procedure for sampling, sample preparation, analysis of MNPs, and (ii) there is no information about the sample contamination before the analysis; this information is inevitable as plastics are present everywhere.…”

Research progresses and prospects of microplasticsin the environment

“…最新的研究还表明, 北极冰雪圈表面的微塑料可能会 加速冰雪圈的升温和融化 [43] . [47,48] , 造成土壤质量的下降, 同时也对土壤动物(蚯 蚓、蜗牛、线虫和跳虫等)生长、发育和繁殖造成影 响 [49~52] , 对小麦、玉米、蔬菜等农作物或烟草、黑麦 草等其他陆生植物的发芽率、生长、光合作用或氧化 应激反应等方面造成影响 [53,54] , 同时也会通过影响土 壤微生物群落组成与结构多样性影响植物-微生物相 互作用体系 [55] , 导致农作物产量下降并影响食品安全.…”