Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-10-211-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-10-211-2024
Original research article
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12 Mar 2024
Original research article |  | 12 Mar 2024

Model-based analysis of erosion-induced microplastic delivery from arable land to the stream network of a mesoscale catchment

Raphael Rehm and Peter Fiener

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A carbon transport model was adjusted to study the importance of water and tillage erosion processes for particular microplastic (MP) transport across a mesoscale landscape. The MP mass delivered into the stream network represented a serious amount of MP input in the same range as potential MP inputs from wastewater treatment plants. In addition, most of the MP applied to arable soils remains in the topsoil (0–20 cm) for decades. The MP sink function of soil results in a long-term MP source.