The Issue of Plastic and Microplastic Pollution in Soil

Tudor, Valentina Constanta; Mocuta, Dorina Nicoleta; Teodorescu, Ruxandra Florina; Smedescu, Dragos Ion

Valentina Constanta Tudor, Dorina Nicoleta Mocuta, Ruxandra Florina Teodorescu, Dragos Ion Smedescu

The Issue of Plastic and Microplastic Pollution in Soil

Abstract:
Soil pollution with plastics represents a great threat to plants, animals, but especially to humans, as a very small quantity of the plastic which is discarded daily is recycled or incinerated in waste facilities, much of it reaching landfills where their decomposition lasts up to 1000 years and during this time the toxic substances penetrate the soil and the water. If, initially, the pollution with plastics has been identified and recognized in the aquatic environment, recent studies show that plastics residues exist in huge quantities in the soil. The present study focuses on the analysis of factors that pollute soil, so the various studies that have been carried out claim that soil pollution with plastic is much higher and increases in an aggressive manner, being estimated to be 4 to 23 times higher than water pollution with plastics, and the accumulation of microplastics in the soil has a negative impact on soil biota. Thus, once the plastic material accumulates in the soil, it is assimilated to organic matter and the mineral substitutes of the soil and persists for several hundred years.

Keywords:
plastic pollution; soil; plastic waste; microplastic; sludge; plastic mulching film

Issue: 2019 Volume 56, Issue 3

Pages: 484-487

Publication date: 2019/9/30

https://doi.org/10.37358/MP.19.3.5214

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TUDOR, V.C., MOCUTA, D.N., TEODORESCU, R.F., SMEDESCU, D.I., The Issue of Plastic and Microplastic Pollution in Soil, Mater. Plast., 56(3), 2019, 484-487. https://doi.org/10.37358/MP.19.3.5214

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Tudor VC, Mocuta DN, Teodorescu RF, Smedescu DI. The Issue of Plastic and Microplastic Pollution in Soil. Mater. Plast.[internet]. 2019 Jul;56(3):484-487. Available from: https://doi.org/10.37358/MP.19.3.5214

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Tudor, V.C., Mocuta, D.N., Teodorescu, R.F. & Smedescu, D.I. (2019). The Issue of Plastic and Microplastic Pollution in Soil. Materiale Plastice, 56(3), 484-487. https://doi.org/10.37358/MP.19.3.5214

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Tudor, V.C., Mocuta, D.N., Teodorescu, R.F., Smedescu, D.I. (2019). 'The Issue of Plastic and Microplastic Pollution in Soil', Materiale Plastice, 56(3), pp. 484-487. https://doi.org/10.37358/MP.19.3.5214

IEEE
V.C. Tudor, D.N. Mocuta, R.F. Teodorescu, D.I. Smedescu, "The Issue of Plastic and Microplastic Pollution in Soil". Materiale Plastice, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 484-487, 2019. [online]. https://doi.org/10.37358/MP.19.3.5214

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Valentina Constanta Tudor, Dorina Nicoleta Mocuta, Ruxandra Florina Teodorescu, Dragos Ion Smedescu,
The Issue of Plastic and Microplastic Pollution in Soil,
Materiale Plastice,
Volume 56, Issue 3,
2019,
Pages 484-487,
ISSN 2668-8220,
https://doi.org/10.37358/MP.19.3.5214.
(https://revmaterialeplastice.ro/Articles.asp?ID=5214)
Keywords: plastic pollution; soil; plastic waste; microplastic; sludge; plastic mulching film

RIS
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JF - Materiale Plastice
JO - Mater. Plast.
PB - Materiale Plastice SRL
SN - 2668-8220
Y1 - 2019
VL - 56
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SP - 484
EP - 487
UR - https://doi.org/10.37358/MP.19.3.5214
KW - plastic pollution
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KW - sludge
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BibTex
@article{MatPlast2019P484,
author = {Tudor Valentina Constanta and Mocuta Dorina Nicoleta and Teodorescu Ruxandra Florina and Smedescu Dragos Ion},
title = {The Issue of Plastic and Microplastic Pollution in Soil},
journal = {Materiale Plastice},
volume = {56},
number = {3},
pages = {484-487},
year = {2019},
issn = {2668-8220},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.37358/MP.19.3.5214},
url = {https://revmaterialeplastice.ro/Articles.asp?ID=5214}
}

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