Forest soils accumulate microplastics through atmospheric deposition

TU Darmstadt: Similar microplastic features in soil and throughfall deposition indicate that microplastics entering forest soils primarily originate from atmospheric deposition and litter fall

The occurrence and fate of microplastics in forest ecosystems is a recognized knowledge gap. In this paper, we used an…

Full text: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02712-4

Author

Collin J. Weber, Moritz Bigalke

Source

nature, 2025-08-26.

Supplier

Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU)

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