Recent Advances in Plastic Waste Management in Agriculture Soils
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Water".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2024) | Viewed by 249
Special Issue Editors
Interests: organic pollutants; mulch film; microplastics; biodegradable materials
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: effect of microplastics on soil greenhouse gas emissions; distribution of microplastics in agricultural fields; degradation of biodegradable plastics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the research focus on plastic pollution has mainly focused on the source, separation/analysis method, abundance detection, environmental behavior and ecological effects of plastic in the marine and tidal flat environment. However, some researchers have pointed out that soil may be a larger plastic storer than the ocean, as the plastic storage capacity of soil is about 4-23 times that of the ocean. Therefore, plastic pollution in the soil environment cannot be ignored. At present, the main plastic pollutants in farmland soil that are closely related to people's production and life include plastic film and seedling floating plate pollution.
In the farmland soil, the residue formed by the incomplete recycling of mulch film is not only easily swallowed by organisms and accumulated in the food chain, but also has a relatively serious impact on the quality of cultivated land and the growth and development of plants. It will also become a carrier for transporting various pollutants due to its charged property, causing a huge amount of pollution and posing a potential threat to the environment. While the seedling floating tray is often used for the cultivation of grain and tobacco seedlings, the environmental problems caused by its unreasonable recycling have also attracted more attention from researchers. In this Special Issue, we solicit papers on the following topics (but topics are not limited to only these):
- Effects of residual mulch film on the assembly of degrading microbial communities;
- Cleaning, recycling and sustainable utilization of waste seedling floating trays;
- Degradation of biodegradable microplastics in agricultural soils;
- Effect of microplastics on soil elements (e.g., C, N and P) cycling in the farmland soil;
- Interaction of emerging contaminants (e.g., antibiotics and nanomaterials) with microplastics and the effect on soil organisms;
- Analytical technology for microplastics and organic pollutants in the environment;
- Metabolic change in plants and soil due to microplastics and organic pollutants.
Dr. Jiangchi Fei
Prof. Dr. Yongxiang Yu
Prof. Dr. Kai Cai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mulch film
- seedling float tray
- polyethylene
- polystyrene
- plasticizer
- soil greenhouse gas
- biodegradable plastics
- soil and plant metabolism
