Wastewater and rivers carry microplastics into the oceans. Wind distributes the particles to the remotest parts of the earth. However, agriculture itself plays a far greater role in plastic pollution ...

This chapter describes, in general terms for the less technical of this report’s readers, the basic behavior of liquefiable soils under cyclic loading, including the effects of material type, load ...

In agriculture, large quantities of nano- and microplastics end up in the soil through compost, sewage sludge and the use of mulching foils. The plastic particles always carry various pollutants with ...