Research on Microplastic Pollution in Water and Soil Environment
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Water".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2025 | Viewed by 3595
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plastic pollutant analysis; microplastics detection; microplastics ecotoxicology; soil and plant metabolomics; plastic additives composition with GC-MS/LC-MS
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Dear Colleagues,
The increasing agricultural mulching production of plastics in recent years has led to severe plastic pollution in the environment. Microplastics (MPs), which are plastics less than 5 mm in length, are even more harmful than larger plastic items, and microplastic pollution has become an emerging environmental issue, especially in water and soil environments. MPs in water and soil environments are extremely diverse and complex. This makes it difficult to detect their abundance, analyze influencing factors, and evaluate the ecological and environmental risks. Recently, MP additives have also become a major concern to the environment due to their toxicity. Based on the above problems, we mainly focus on MP pollution in water and soil environments, and the main topics are as follows: 1) advanced detection techniques for diverse MP compositions; 2) the distribution characteristics and influencing factors of MPs; 3) the ecological and environmental risks to plants and animals, evaluated with omics techniques; 4) MP additive compositions; 5) control strategies for MP remediation.
Dr. Kai Cai
Dr. Taoze Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microplastic detection
- microplastic abundance
- plastic additives composition
- ecolog-ical risk
- environmental risk
- water and soil environment
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