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Incorporation of microplastics from litter into burrows of Lumbricus terrestris.
Esperanza Huerta Lwanga,Hennie Gertsen,Harm P.A. Gooren,Piet Peters,Tamás Salánki,Martine van der Ploeg,Ellen Besseling,Albert A. Koelmans,Violette Geissen +8 more
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The high biogenic incorporation rate of the small-fraction microplastics from surface litter into burrow walls causes a risk of leaching through preferential flow into groundwater bodies, which may have implications for the subsequent availability of microplastic to terrestrial organisms or for the transport of plastic-associated organic contaminants in soil.About:
This article is published in Environmental Pollution.The article was published on 2017-01-01. It has received 425 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Microplastics & Lumbricus terrestris.read more
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Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Aquatic Environments: Aggregation, Deposition, and Enhanced Contaminant Transport
TL;DR: This Critical Review provides a critical review of the current knowledge vis-à-vis nanoplastic (NP) and microplastic (MP) aggregation, deposition, and contaminant cotransport in the environment and highlights key knowledge gaps that need to be addressed.
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Microplastics as an emerging threat to terrestrial ecosystems
Anderson Abel de Souza Machado,Anderson Abel de Souza Machado,Werner Kloas,Werner Kloas,Christiane Zarfl,Stefan Hempel,Matthias C. Rillig +6 more
TL;DR: The pervasive microplastic contamination as a potential agent of global change in terrestrial systems is introduced, the physical and chemical nature of the respective observed effects are highlighted, and the broad toxicity of nanoplastics derived from plastic breakdown is discussed.
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Plastics in soil: Analytical methods and possible sources
Melanie Bläsing,Wulf Amelung +1 more
TL;DR: Current knowledge on available methods for the quantification and identification of plastic in soil, the quantity and possible input pathways of plastic into soil, and its fate in soil are reviewed are reviewed to ensure the applicability of these methods for soil needs to be tested.
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Impacts of Microplastics on the Soil Biophysical Environment
Anderson Abel de Souza Machado,Anderson Abel de Souza Machado,Chung Wai Lau,Chung Wai Lau,Chung Wai Lau,Jennifer Till,Werner Kloas,Werner Kloas,Anika Lehmann,Roland Becker,Matthias C. Rillig +10 more
TL;DR: If extended to other soils and plastic types, the processes unravelled here suggest that microplastics are relevant long-term anthropogenic stressors and drivers of global change in terrestrial ecosystems.
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Microplastics Can Change Soil Properties and Affect Plant Performance
Anderson Abel de Souza Machado,Anderson Abel de Souza Machado,Chung W Lau,Chung W Lau,Chung W Lau,Werner Kloas,Werner Kloas,Joana Bergmann,Julien B. Bachelier,Erik Faltin,Erik Faltin,Roland Becker,Anna S Görlich,Matthias C. Rillig +13 more
TL;DR: The findings reported here imply that the pervasive microplastic contamination in soil may have consequences for plant performance and thus for agroecosystems and terrestrial biodiversity.
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Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean
Jenna Jambeck,Roland Geyer,Chris Wilcox,Theodore R. Siegler,Miriam E. Perryman,Anthony L. Andrady,Ramani Narayan,Kara Lavender Law +7 more
TL;DR: This work combines available data on solid waste with a model that uses population density and economic status to estimate the amount of land-based plastic waste entering the ocean, which is estimated to be 275 million metric tons.
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Jenna Jambeck,Roland Geyer,Chris Wilcox,Theodore R. Siegler,Anthony L. Andrady,Ramani Narayan,Kara Lavender Law +6 more
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TL;DR: Global plastics production and the accumulation of plastic waste are documented, showing that trends in mega- and macro-plastic accumulation rates are no longer uniformly increasing and that the average size of plastic particles in the environment seems to be decreasing.
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TL;DR: This study shows for the first time the potential of plastic microparticle transfer via planktonic organisms from one trophic level (mesozooplankton) to a higher level (macrozooplankton).