Feb 10 2021 Read 3693 Times A new study from Kansas State University has revealed farm soil, and therefore food supply, contains an alarmingly high level of microplastics. Scientists warn that microplastics now pose more of a threat to agricultural soil than oceans, hindering plant development and compromising the health of consumers. “I had read in the literature that... cadmium and other toxic trace elements [are] increased when we have these particulate plastics in the soil. So, that was of concern to me,” says Mary Beth Kirkham, a plant physiologist and professor of agronomy at Kansas State University. Microplastics support intake of contaminants