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Nanoplastics in the Environment is a far-reaching collection at the interface of environmental science and nanoplastic research exploring the science of conventional and biodegradable nanoplastics. The collection features work promoting nanoplastic generation through to sensing and monitoring, agricultural & water pollution and uptake studies as well as nanoplastic-bio interactions informing health policy and assessing risk.

Nanoplastics in the Environment will highlight all aspects of nanoplastics in environmental science, including topics such as, but not limited to:

• Generation – how nanoplastics are generated, what they are generated from and how they end up in the environment, including production of environmentally relevant test and reference nanoplastic materials.
• Sensing and detection – how nanoplastics are monitored and detected/identified in the environment and environmentally relevant matrices, especially validation of methods.
• Agriculture â€“ how nanoplastics enter soils, their fate, behaviour, and interaction with the ecosystem and how this influences bioavailability. Their role in soil pollution, their transport in soil systems, their impact in (agricultural) soil health, their potential for plant uptake and entry into the food chain.
• Water and remediation – how nanoplastics enter aquatic systems, their environmental behaviour, and implications and understanding of their effects in natural water supplies. Removal of nanoplastics during wastewater treatment and drinking water production.
• Bio-interactions, toxicology and risk – how nanoplastics interact with biological systems and uptake from the environment. How understanding nanoplastic interactions in the environment can inform policy and the risks associated with them.

This themed collection will include all manuscript types: original research papers, communications, perspectives and review articles. If authors are interested in submitting a review article, please email an outline proposal to the editors for checking.