Engineers’ report warns of clothes fibres from wash entering food chain

Experts are warning the way people wash their clothes needs to change to prevent plastic getting into the food chain. A report issued by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers suggests as many as 700,000 microscopic fibres may their way into the ocean every time a garment is washed. That, they say, risks seeing them swallowed …

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