EALING: Scientists released an alarming report confirming the Great Lakes is being infested by synthetic microfibers that originate from clothing, cleaning cloths and other consumer products.
Scientists have stated that a new form of debris is turning up in sampling nets: microfibers like synthetic fibers from garments and other consumer products.
Microfibers are exceedingly fine filaments made of petroleum based materials such as polyester and nylon that are woven together into fabrics.
Sherri Mason, a chemist from the State University of New York at Fredonia and who was involved in the research study that discovered the microfiber presence in the lakes, said, “When we launder our clothes, some of the little microfibers will break off and go down the drain to the wastewater-treatment facility and end up in our bodies of water.”
The journal Environmental Science and Technology stated in 2011 that the fibers are so minuscule that people won’t realize their favorite pullover fleece can shed thousands of them with every washing.
Mason and her colleagues have documented the existence of the micro-plastic litter in the Great Lakes for the past couple of years. They said that some are too small to see with the naked eye. The particles that were found in the Great Lakes were abrasive beads used in grooming products such as facial and body washes and toothpastes.
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