Quantification of Microplastics in Soils Using Accelerated Solvent Extraction: Comparison with a Visual Sorting Method

Opening Space for Plastics—Why Spatial, Soil and Land Use Data Are Important to Understand Global Soil (Micro)Plastic Pollution

“…However, some studies indicate soil features like overall texture composition or soil moisture (e.g., [37]) instead of soil classifications. Related to soil features, 40.0% of the evaluated studies conducted additional analysis of soil properties like texture analysis [19,33,41], soil pH [23,33,38,41,47], bulk density [47], moisture [23,38,47], SOM contents [33,41], cation exchange capacity [33], carbon contents [23,47], nitrogen contents [47] and other elemental concentrations [24,34,47].…”

Development and validation of an improved QuEChERS method for the extraction of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) from complex soils

“…The assembly and disassembly of ASE apparatus is equally a time-intensive endeavor. [15][16][17] ASE, particularly its GPC segment, necessitates a relatively substantial volume of toxic solvents, engendering heightened costs while concurrently augmenting the potential for human exposure to these hazardous substances. 18,19 Henceforth, an exigent desire emerges for an expeditious and unobtrusive methodology for the preparatory treatment of SVOCs.…”