Microplastic Pollution in Terrestrial Ecosystems and Its Interaction with Other Soil Pollutants: A Potential Threat to Soil Ecosystem Sustainability

The production and disposal of plastics have become significant concerns for the sustainability planet. During past 75 years, around 80% plastic waste has either ended up in landfills or been released into environment. Plastic debris environment breaks down smaller particles through fragmentation, weathering, other disintegration processes, generating microplastics (plastic ≤ 5 mm size). Although marine aquatic ecosystems primary focus microplastic pollution research, a growing body evidence suggests that terrestrial are equally at risk. Microplastic contamination reported various environments from several sources such as mulch, pharmaceuticals cosmetics, tire abrasions (tire wear particles), textiles industries (microfibers), sewage sludge, dumping. Recent studies suggest soil sink pollutants is often contaminated with mixture organic inorganic pollutants. This gradually caused adverse impacts on health fertility by affecting pH, porosity, water-holding capacity, microbial enzymatic activities. Microplastics can interact co-existing adsorbing contaminants onto their surfaces intermolecular forces, including electrostatic, hydrophobic, non-covalent, partition effects, van der Waals microporous filling mechanisms. subsequently delays degradation process existing contaminants, thereby ecological activities ecosystem. Thus, present article aims to elucidate deleterious impact interactions review also addresses disrupting