One report has found that each time we wash a polyester garment, 1,900 individual plastic microfibers are shed into the water supply.
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Peer-reviewed article
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2011 - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es201811s
Peer-reviewed article
2011 - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es201811s