Wait, your laundry? Yup. Every time you wash a fleece jacket or yoga pants, thousands of microfibers get rinsed out. They’re too tiny for water treatment plants to catch.
Plastics pose a problem in waterways. - North Carolina Health News
Those fibers travel right into the nearest stream. Then a fish eats them. Then you eat the fish. It’s the circle of life, but with polyester.
What can you do? Wash synthetics less. Use a Guppyfriend bag or a filter. Or just embrace wearing the same sweater four days in a row. I won’t judge.
The great garbage patch myth
You’ve heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It’s not a floating island you could walk on. It’s more like a plastic smog. Tiny bits spread over millions of square miles.
You could sail right through it and barely notice. But a net would come up filled with confetti. Confetti that lasts for centuries.
And yes, it’s twice the size of Texas. But it’s also growing. By 2050, there could be more plastic than fish by weight in the ocean. More plastic than fish. Let that sink in.
