Microplastics in soil: Tomography with neutrons and X-rays shows where particles are deposited Date: November 17, 2023 Source: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie ...

More information: Kyouhei Tsuchida et al, Effect of solution pH on nanoplastic adsorption onto soil particle surface and the aggregation of soil particles, Science of The Total Environment (2025 ...

"Turning plastic waste into a valuable soil additive." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 9 January 2023. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 01 / 230109083450.htm>.

According to a recent report by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the earth’s soils may be more saturated with plastic pollution than oceans and an estimated 80 percent of ...

Glass-fragment waste typically just ends up in landfills, but perhaps that doesn't always have to be the case. A study shows that ground glass particles can be mixed with soil to produce a plant ...

In terms of soil structure, smaller particles have more surface area for the same volume of soil, meaning more area where water can stick. This activity will try out this idea with insoluble dry food.

Two of nuclear waste’s most problematic ingredients are metals called americium and curium; each has particularly long-lived forms that decay slowly over thousands of years.

A new type of public toilet is helping people in Haiti make fertilizer from human waste, a project that may someday revive the country's degraded farmland, curb disease, and create jobs.. Since ...

Microplastics in soil: Tomography with neutrons and X-rays shows where particles are deposited Peer-Reviewed Publication. Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie ...

UCR chemical and environmental engineers detailed a method to convert plastic waste into a highly porous form of charcoal that has a whopping surface area of about 400 square meters per gram of mass.