Plastic pollution: European farmland could be largest global reservoir of microplastics
The amount of microplastics found in European farmland soil mirrors the concentration found in ocean surface waters. Image: Unsplash/Dylan de Jonge
Valentine Muhawenimana
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Environmental Engineering, Cardiff University
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