New research has for the first time measured the scale of ‘micro-plastic textile waste’ that falls to earth from the air that we breathe. Researchers in France collected atmospheric fallout of micro-plastics at two sampling sites over the course of a year and, based on their findings, estimate that between three and ten tons of textile fibre waste, including synthetic ‘micro-plastics’, could originate annually from the atmosphere within an area the size of Paris.
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