Airborne microplastics enter plant leaves and end up in our food

Author(s):: Peijnenburg, W.G.J.M.

Published: 2025
Publication type: Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

Evidence for a previously overlooked route for microplastics to enter crops and reach plant tissues has implications for ecology and human health.

Date issued: 2025-04-09
Language: English
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Is part of: Nature (2025), 601-602
hdl: 1887/4212195
doi: 10.1038/d41586-025-00909-3