Communications Earth & Environment (Sep 2021)

Microplastics and nanoplastics barely enhance contaminant mobility in agricultural soils

  • Stephanie Castan,
  • Charlotte Henkel,
  • Thorsten Hüffer,
  • Thilo Hofmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00267-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The transfer of organic contaminants from surface to deeper layers in farmland soils is barely enhanced by microplastic and nanoplastic transport, according to an analytical modeling study.