Microfibres: the plastic in our clothes
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Could you be eating your own clothes? Our garments are shedding tiny bits of plastic that can escape into the ocean and potentially enter the food chain.
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How Plastic Pollution is Being Woven into Fast Fashion Culture
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Research finds clothes dryers are an overlooked source of airborne microfibers
Solana Center for Environmental Innovation - #Didyouknow our clothing sheds tiny synthetic pieces of plastic yarn called #microfibers? Washing machines do not have a mechanism to filter to capture these microfibers going
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What Are Microplastics and How Did They Get Into Our Food?
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Microfibers: How the Tiny Threads in Our Clothes Are Polluting the Bay
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Microplastics, Free Full-Text
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Why doing laundry might be bad for our health
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Washing Clothes Pollutes Oceans With Microplastics – PlanetCare
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All You Need To Know About Microfibres, Our Blog
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How your clothes are poisoning the oceans & ways to reduce your impact.
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BBC News Africa on X: With every wash, clothes shed plastic microfibres that can end up polluting our oceans and even finding their way into some of our seafood. #COP28UAE /