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Home Washing Machines: Source of Potentially Harmful Ocean 'Microplastic' Pollution

SOURCE: DIGG • 2011-10-21

[75 diggs] Scientists are reporting 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 they now have detected on ocean shorelines worldwide. read more »

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