- Synthetic fabrics, such as polar fleece and nylon, shed microscopic plastic fibres when washed. Synthetic clothing has released about 5.6 million tonnes of microfibres since 1950, polluting land and water alike. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237839 1396 comments science
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- Washing Synthetic Clothes Spreads Microplastics Even Further Than We Thought : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-from-synthetic-clothes-are-polluting-land-even-more-than-water 158 comments
- Plastic pollution: Washed clothing's synthetic mountain of 'fluff' - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54182646 28 comments
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