Agricultural plastics: analyzing the risks to food safety, health, and the environment by way of soil pollution by microplastics SciTotEnv foodsafety health environment soil pollution microplastics
By Tarun Sai LomteJun 8 2023Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM A recent study published in the Science of the Total Environment Journal reviewed the use, characteristics, and potential risks of agricultural plastics .
Tackling plastic pollution requires banning single-use plastics, production cuts, regulating post-consumer plastic mismanagement, and implementing circular economy principles. Besides, the different plastic products used in agriculture include irrigation pipes and tapes, drainage pipes, protection nets, produce collection nets, clips, twines, shelters for tree saplings, plant pots, nursery pot trays, fertilizer bags or sacks, polymer-coated fertilizers, and controlled-release fertilizers, among others.
The international market for agricultural films is expected to increase from $11.5 billion in 2021 to $15.7 billion by 2026. The market is dominated by emerging economies in the Asia-Pacific, followed by Europe and North America. Further, 5% of microplastics released into the atmosphere as secondary emissions originate from croplands. APs are exposed to extreme temperatures, snow, wind, hail, rain, UV radiation, mechanical stress, and agrochemicals during usage, and their cumulative effects cause AP degradation.
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