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Virtually all synthetic clothing, when washed, sheds millions of microfibers in each wash cycle that turns into plastics pollution.

MICROFIBERS: The Fastest Growing Plastics Pollutant

written by THERESA BROWN ’21

Photo by Beau Jones

URI Initiative Plastics: Land to Sea SPRING | 2021 Page 19