Doing laundry by hand sheds just as many microfibres as machine washing – new research
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McKay, D. (2023). Doing laundry by hand sheds just as many microfibres as machine washing – new research. [Blog Style Article]
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Shedding off-the-grid: The role of garment manufacturing and textile care in global microfibre pollution (2023)
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Stanton, T., Stanes, E., Gwinnett, C., Lei, X., Cauilan-Cureg, M., Ramos, M., …McKay, D. (2023). Shedding off-the-grid: The role of garment manufacturing and textile care in global microfibre pollution. Journal of Cleaner Production, 428, Article 139391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.139391Textile fibres are abundant anthropogenic pollutants. These fibres enter aquatic, terrestrial, and atmospheric environments, and biota. Textile fibres pose biological and chemical threats to the environments they pollute. Laundry is a primary source... Read More about Shedding off-the-grid: The role of garment manufacturing and textile care in global microfibre pollution.