Andy Macdonald

“Some would have inevitably ended up in the soil through atmospheric deposition, and you can also imagine microplastics being shed from tractor tyres.”

Andy Macdonald · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-25

Macdonald describes how microplastics historically made their way into soil.

“The use of plastics in society first came into being on a large scale in about the 1920s, and we see a big increase from the 1960s onwards,”

Andy Macdonald · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-25

Macdonald explains the historical emergence of microplastics in archived soil samples.