Applied science and research and development agency, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has reported ...

Plastic mulch films are extensively used in agriculture, where they provide a range of benefits. ... On field surfaces alone, we found up to 213,500 macroplastic particles per hectare.

EAST LANSING, MI—In 1999, more than 30 million acres of agricultural land worldwide were covered with plastic mulch, and those numbers have been increasing significantly since then. With the ...

Around the world, over 25 million acres of farmland is seasonally covered with opaque plastic films used as “mulch” to prevent weeds, retain moisture, and warm soil—a practice known as ...

Could wax-coated sand replace plastic mulch in farmers' fields? A sample of the KAUST team's purified-paraffin-wax-coated Superhydrophobic Sand (SHS) Adapted from ACS Agricultural Science ...

China vowed to improve the recycling rates of plastic mulch used in farming, the government said on Wednesday, amid mounting concerns about soil contamination as unrecovered bits of the thin film ...