A UCLA study, published in the journal ACS ES&T Water and coauthored by C&EE Professors Sanjay Mohanty and Erik Hoek, suggests that fertilizer could contain far more plastic particles — as much as 25 times more — than was previously suspected. In the UCLA Newsroom article, Professor Mohanty spoke about the need for further research on where microplastics go after wastewater is processed, and the associated risks.
Read the full article: Biosolids used as fertilizer could contain more plastic than previously thought