Özcan, AliEczacıoğlu, NumanAydın, Ziya2025-01-122025-01-122024Ozcan, A., Eczacioglu, N., & Aydin, Z. (2024). Chapter three - Occurrence of microplastics and nanoplastics in terrestrial ecosystem and their toxicological impacts in plants. In Emerging Contaminants (pp. 69–94). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-18985-2.00004-3978-044318985-2978-044318986-9https://hdl.handle.net/11492/9054https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-18985-2.00004-3Materials that are plastic in nature have gained popularity worldwide thanks to a variety of applications, durability, and low cost. Different types of plastics have been vastly produced since the 1940s, and they are an essential part of our life since. Plastics pose a significant risk to ecosystem health, human health, and natural life due to their widespread use. Plastic kinds are categorized according to their size, such as micro/nanoplastics (M/N-Ps). These plastics pose more issues for living things, disrupting the natural order of things and contaminating the water, air, and soil. Plants that get exposed to M/N-Ps uptake them at high concentrations, causing their death and harming the food quantity and quality. This chapter of this book is split into three sections. The first section of the chapter will introduce the concept of M/N-Ps and their nature of existence in the environment. The section will include M/N-Ps occurrence due to decomposition in nature and secondary product release of industrial production. The second section of the chapter will discuss how these plastics interact with the soil media. This chapter will cover the effects on soil chemical properties, microbial community, and soil physical properties, which affect overall plant growth and health. The last chapter will include the interaction of M/N-Ps with terrestrial plants and organic pollutants. Due to their small size, M/N-Ps could be mobilized into plant vascular. © 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.enaccumulation of nanoplastics in soil and plantsfate of nanoplastics in plantsHuman toxicity of plasticsBook Chapter6994info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2-s2.0-8519338188210.1016/B978-0-443-18985-2.00004-3N/A