Microplastic Detection in Soil Amended With Municipal Solid Waste Composts as Revealed by Transmission Electronic Microscopy and Pyrolysis/GC/MS

Watteau, Françoise; Dignac, Marie‐France; Bouchard, Adeline; Revallier, Agathe; Houot, Sabine

doi:10.3389/fsufs.2018.00081

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Microplastic Detection in Soil Amended With Municipal Solid Waste Composts as Revealed by Transmission Electronic Microscopy and Pyrolysis/GC/MS

Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems • Dec 11, 2018

Authors:

Françoise Watteau

Marie‐France Dignac

Adeline Bouchard

Abstract

Urban compost application in agroecosystems enhances soil fertility but can also be a source of (micro)plastics, which are not completely removed during the composting process. Knowledge of the fate of these plastics in regularly-amended soils is thus an issue for the environmental management of the...

Subject

Compost

Soil water

Fractionation

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