Handbook of Microplastic Pollution in the Environment

Microplastic Pollution in the Soil

Tonni Kurniawan, Abdelkader Anouzla

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040318386
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

In this timely handbook, one of a series of three, leading contributors from around the world offer practical insight into the challenges and opportunities for using various technologies to tackle microplastic pollution and improve microplastic management in agricultural soil.

Through this book, readers will gain a deep understanding of microplastic pollution in soils and its effects and knowledge of strategies and technologies to identify, monitor, and combat this. Early chapters describe microplastics in the rural environment, their accumulation, and their effects on soil biological processes and biodiversity, before moving on to address identification, analysis, and monitoring. Finally, they address innovative solutions for soil remediation, such as microbial strain engineering and other techniques. An introduction is provided at the beginning of each chapter for those interested in a brief synopsis, and copious references are provided for those wishing to study each chapter topic in greater detail. This book furnishes readers with the knowledge to identify and monitor microplastic levels in soil and reduce these to mitigate their harmful effects on soil biodiversity and ecosystems in agricultural soil, improving environmental and human health and minimizing economic losses. For a wider perspective, readers are encouraged to refer to the other two titles in this series, subtitled Microplastic Pollution in Aquatic Environments and Monitoring and Treatment of Microplastics and Policy Perspectives.

In its exploration of the relationships among the characteristics of microplastics, their mobility, transport pathways, and treatment, this handbook represents a vital practical guide for academics, industry-based researchers, and policymakers worldwide to address soil biodiversity and ecological health.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Editors
• Contributors
• Chapter 1 ◾ Identifying Knowledge Gaps and Research Needs in Microplastic Pollution Research
• Chapter 2 ◾ Microplastics in the Environment: Sources and Impacts on Human Health
• Chapter 3 ◾ Source Identification of Microplastics via Natural and Anthropogenic Impacts
• Chapter 4 ◾ Micro/Nanoplastics in Agricultural Soils and Associated Hazard
• Chapter 5 ◾ Quantification and Ecotoxicological Evolution of Microplastics in Soil Ecosystem
• Chapter 6 ◾ Fate, Transport Pathways, and Accumulation of Microplastics Agricultural Soil and Their Interaction with Agrochemicals
• Chapter 7 ◾ Impact of Microplastics on Soil’s Biodiversity and Public Health
• Chapter 8 ◾ Innovative Solutions for Soil Remediation from Microplastics Pollution
• Chapter 9 ◾ Mitigation of Microplastics: Impacts for Soil Remediation
• Chapter 10 ◾ Microbial Strain Engineering for Microplastics Removal in Soils
• Chapter 11 ◾ Mechanisms and Influencing Factors Making Agricultural Soil as a Sink for Microplastics
• Chapter 12 ◾ Microplastics in Agricultural Soil
• Chapter 13 ◾ Agricultural Soils Containing Micro/Nanoplastics and Related Risks
• Chapter 14 ◾ Impact of Microplastics on Soil’s Biodiversity and Public Health
• Chapter 15 ◾ Minimizing Microplastics: Impacts on Restoring Soil
• Chapter 16 ◾ Microplastic Pollution in the Environment: Effects of Microplastic Particles on Geotechnical and Other Properties of Soil
• Chapter 17 ◾ Fate and Transport Pathways of Microplastics in Agricultural Soil and their Interaction with Agrochemicals
• Chapter 18 ◾ Microplastics in Freshwater and Soil: Policy Implementation and Management
• Chapter 19 ◾ Microplastics’ Ecotoxicological Assessment and Quantification in the Soil Ecosystem
• Chapter 20 ◾ Microplastics in the Air
• Chapter 21 ◾ Impact of Microplastics in Agricultural Soil on Nutrient Recycling and Fertility
• Chapter 22 ◾ Microplastics as an Emerging Source of Particulate Air Pollution
• Chapter 23 ◾ The Impact of Plastic Products on Air Pollution: A Comprehensive Review
• Index