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California’s Fish Are Ingesting Tiny Fibers from Your Favorite Jacket

November 3, 2015 by mcoc

New study finds that fish are ingesting large quantities of fibers that likely came off your outerwear in the wash and flowed into the sea. Outside Humanity dumps 8 million tons of plastic into the oceans each year, according to a study published early this year in Science. That’s a mind-blowingly large figure, but it still doesn’t account for the untold billions […]

Categories: Action Sports, Gear, Lifecycle, Microfiber Pollution, Oceans, Policy, Technology • Tags: chelsea rochman, ecosystems, fish, microfiber, microplastics, toxins

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I interviewed Shaun White in 1999, when he was just a grom at age 13. He told me his parents were roller derby stars back in the day. Explains a lot. The interview, for long-gone MountainZone.com, still lives in the Way Back Machine.

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