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Plugging the Leak on Laundry Pollution – An average three-pound load of shirts, pants and socks sheds hundreds of thousands of microfibers into the sewer system, where they slip undetected past water chemical treatment plants and enter river and ocean ecosystems

Laundry is the biggest source of microplastic fibers in our waterways. These Columbia researchers are working on a solution.

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