Title:
Wearing clothes could release more microfibres to the environment than washing them
By:
University of Plymouth
Published:
Phys.org, 10 March 2020
From the article:
"Wearing clothes can release even greater quantities of microfibres to the environment than washing them, new research shows.
In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists from the Institute for Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials of the National Research Council of Italy (IPCB-CNR) and the University of Plymouth compared four different items of polyester clothing and how many fibres were released when they were being worn and washed."
To read this article:
https://phys.org/news/2020-03-microfibres-environment.html