Two components: an agricultural soil survey across China, Egypt, India, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam to identify microplastic types and drivers of enrichment, and an inter-laboratory comparison of microplastic quantification across seven countries including Australia and the UK. Data was generated from 2022 to 2025 and is hosted by the Environmental Information Data Centre. The dataset includes site metadata, environmental data, soil properties, and lab-specific recovery rates.
Use Cases
- Modeling drivers of microplastic enrichment in agricultural soils based on farm practices and environmental data.
- Comparing microplastic quantification and identification methods across different laboratories based on the inter-laboratory standard comparison.
- Analyzing the relationship between soil properties (pH, EC, texture) and microplastic concentrations based on the soil survey data.
- Assessing the prevalence of specific polymer types in agricultural soils covered with plastic mulch film.
Strengths
- Multi-national coverage across five countries for the soil survey and seven for the lab comparison.
- Includes both field survey data and controlled inter-laboratory method validation data.
- Data generation period from 2022 to 2025 suggests recent collection.
Limitations
- Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the selected survey countries.
Provenance
- Source
- Environmental Information Data Centre
- Collection Method
- Agricultural soil survey and inter-laboratory comparison study.
- Time Range
- 2022-2025
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-21 14:09:50.969327; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Soil survey: China, Egypt, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam. Lab comparison: Australia, China, Egypt, India, Sri Lanka, UK, Vietnam.