Promoting Public Health: Household washing machines are a source of potentially harmful ocean “microplastic” pollution

Promoting Public Health: Household washing machines are a source of potentially harmful ocean “microplastic” pollution

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Today’s solution warns that household washing machines seem to be a major source of so-called “microplastic” pollution — bits of polyester and acrylic smaller than the head of a pin — that scientists now have detected on shorelines worldwide.
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