PMID- 38214797
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20240115
LR  - 20240208
IS  - 1573-2959 (Electronic)
IS  - 0167-6369 (Linking)
VI  - 196
IP  - 2
DP  - 2024 Jan 12
TI  - Occurrence and characteristics of microplastics pollution in tropical 
      agricultural soils in Klang Valley, Malaysia.
PG  - 144
LID - 10.1007/s10661-024-12330-w [doi]
AB  - Presently, microplastic pollution has emerged as a growing environmental risk 
      around the world. Nevertheless, knowledge of the occurrence and characteristics 
      of microplastics in tropical agricultural soil is limited. This study 
      investigated the pollution of surface soil microplastics in two agricultural 
      farms located at Klang Valley, Malaysia. An extraction method based on density 
      separation by using saturated extraction solution (sodium sulfate, rho = 2 g cm(-3) 
      and sucrose, rho = 1.59 g cm(-3) with a ratio 1:1, v/v) was carried out. The study 
      revealed the mean particle size of soil microplastics with 3260.76 +/- 880.38 mum in 
      farm A and 2822.31 +/- 408.48 mum in farm B. The dominant types of soil 
      microplastics were fragments and films with major colors of white (59%) and 
      transparent (28%) in farm A, while black (52%) and white (37.6%) in farm B. 
      Representatives of soil microplastics detected polymers of polyvinyl chloride 
      (PVC), high density polyethylene (HDPE), polycarbonate (PC), and polystyrene 
      (PS). The sources of plastic products were black and white plastic pipes, black 
      plastic films for vegetation, fertilizer bottles, plastic water containers and 
      polystyrene storage boxes, and the breakdown processes, contributed to the 
      microplastic pollution in these farms. The outcomes of this study will establish 
      a better understanding of microplastic pollution in tropical agricultural soil in 
      the Southeast Asian region. The findings would be beneficial as supportive 
      reference for the endeavor to reduce microplastic pollution in agricultural soil.
CI  - (c) 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
FAU - Shanmugam, Shyamala Devi
AU  - Shanmugam SD
AD  - Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and 
      Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM, 43400, Serdang, Selangor Darul 
      Ehsan, Malaysia.
FAU - Praveena, Sarva Mangala
AU  - Praveena SM
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0159-4395
AD  - Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and 
      Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM, 43400, Serdang, Selangor Darul 
      Ehsan, Malaysia. smpraveena@upm.edu.my.
FAU - Wahid, Samsuri Abdul
AU  - Wahid SA
AD  - Department of Land Management, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 
      UPM, 43400, Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
FAU - Liew, Josephine Ying Chyi
AU  - Liew JYC
AD  - Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM, 43400, 
      Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20240112
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Environ Monit Assess
JT  - Environmental monitoring and assessment
JID - 8508350
RN  - 0 (Microplastics)
RN  - 0 (Plastics)
RN  - 0 (Soil)
RN  - 0 (Polystyrenes)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Microplastics
MH  - *Plastics
MH  - Soil
MH  - Polystyrenes
MH  - Malaysia
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Agricultural soil
OT  - Density separation
OT  - Microplastics
OT  - Occurrence
OT  - Sources
OT  - Tropical
EDAT- 2024/01/12 12:43
MHDA- 2024/01/15 12:42
CRDT- 2024/01/12 11:09
PHST- 2023/10/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2024/01/05 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2024/01/15 12:42 [medline]
PHST- 2024/01/12 12:43 [pubmed]
PHST- 2024/01/12 11:09 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s10661-024-12330-w [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s10661-024-12330-w [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Environ Monit Assess. 2024 Jan 12;196(2):144. doi: 10.1007/s10661-024-12330-w.