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Illustration: Yann Bastard
Published April 21, 2021
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My happy place is that chaotic zone of salt and spray where the beach meets the sea, a place of coming and going, flux and exchange. I love to dig my toes into the suctioning sand and feel the swirl of a receding wave. Though often my feet find sharp things in the soft sand not just gravel and pebbles but also, increasingly and overwhelmingly, plastic. I try to collect the shards, the bits of aquas, whites, and teals, but soon I give up, angry and defeated. There is too much. So much of it is too tiny to hold or even see.
Research aims to reevaluate microplastic pollution’s impact on the climate
Australian Division s ice core drilling camp in Aurora Basin North, East Antarctica. The team retrieved data to quantify elements contributing to climate change in January 2014. (Photo: Feiteng Wang)
April 3, 2021
Plastic plays a huge role in our daily lives – from plastic bags to products used and consumed – it makes up a majority of lived experiences and has reached some of the most remote parts of the world.
Our unsustainable use of plastic continues to have detrimental impacts on the health of the environment and species that inhabit it. It could come to a point of no return with permanent plastic contamination – unless we do something about it, fast.
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Polyester fibers are making their way from laundry machines in North America and Europe all the way up to the Arctic, according to a new study. Synthetic fibers made up a whopping 92 percent of microplastic pollution found in Arctic seawater, of which polyester was the most common.
“What you and I wear, how we wash our clothes, and what we buy at the clothing store is really having profound consequences”
That means that textiles, laundry, and wastewater are likely big culprits when it comes microplastics polluting the world’s oceans, according to study authors. The polyester fibers they found in the Arctic are the same size as fibers found in water from laundry machines and wastewater treatment plants. Much of it is drifting into the Arctic from the Atlantic ocean, the findings suggest which points to North America and Europe as the source of those fibers.
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