03 DEC 2021 STORY CHEMICALS & POLLUTION ACTION UNEP
The images are sobering: dead sea birds and choking turtles caught in the plastic that is increasingly flooding into marine ecosystems.
In many parts of the world, this type of plastic pollution has grabbed headlines.
Yet there’s a similar environmental blight that gets far less attention but is potentially as harmful, say experts: agricultural plastic pollution. Recent research by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) indicates that agricultural soils may receive greater quantities of microplastics than oceans.
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