Study tallies up the plastic fibers shed globally through laundry
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Sep 21 2020 at 7:14 AM GMT
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- Discarded soda bottles, cigarette butts and fishing nets are some common examples of pollution in the ocean, but our problems with plastic don't end with the pieces that you see.
- Laundry cycles see our clothes shed huge amounts of microplastic fibers into the wastewater and scientists have now made an effort to quantify this, estimating that millions of metric tonnes of these synthetic fibers have entered waterbodies since 1950.
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- Published Sep 21, 2020 7:14 AM GMT