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Domestic laundry and microfiber pollution: Exploring fiber shedding from consumer apparel textiles

Synthetic fibers are increasingly seen to dominate microplastic pollution profiles in aquatic environments, with evidence pointing to textiles as a potentially important source. However, the loss of microfibers from textiles during laundry is poorly understood. We evaluated microfiber release from a...

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Autores principales: Vassilenko, Ekaterina, Watkins, Mathew, Chastain, Stephen, Mertens, Joel, Posacka, Anna M., Patankar, Shreyas, Ross, Peter S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8270180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34242234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250346