Categories: sewage sludge

Microplastics pollution of the oceans is increasingly under the news spotlight, but there are now growing calls to study microplastics in soil fertilizers.

Time to start worrying about microplastics in our farming fields?

Microplastics in our oceans and their impact on marine and human life are an environmental problem of global proportions, says Bluewater, a world leader in residential water purification. But in response to new research from Norway, Bluewater warns that microplastics are now also being found in sewage sludge used to fertilize soils for growing food for human consumption.

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