Beneath the fields that feed the world, a silent transformation is underway: the soil itself has become a carrier of harm. Microplastic fragments, the residue of modern material life, have accumulated across agricultural and wild landscapes to the point where they now act as vehicles for toxins, drawing heavy metals and persistent pollutants into plant roots, food chains, and ultimately human bodies. Scientists have come to understand that plastic pollution is not merely a problem of accumulation, but of active chemical transport — a distinction that reframes the urgency of what has already se
Microplastics in soil act as 'Trojan horse' for toxins, posing global threat
Potential health impacts through food chain contamination and toxin exposure to human populations globally.