Washing clothes... pollutes the Oceans...

[TOM4CWB]

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/04/20220404-bordeaux.html

"Study finds twice as many cellulose fibers as microplastics in the Atlantic Ocean
04 April 2022

A study by three French institutes—Ifremer, the University of Bordeaux and the IRD (a public research institution)—has found that the surface water of the Atlantic Ocean is twice as polluted by cellulose fibers as it is by microplastics. This study, based on measurements taken from an offshore race boat, also shows that the North Atlantic is more affected by plastic pollution than the South Atlantic and questions the dynamics of the subtropical gyre (area with a high concentration of microplastics) since the pollution levels measured there are lower than expected.

During the last ‘Vendée Globe’, a singlehanded round-the-world yacht race, French skipper Fabrice Amedeo collected 53 samples using the microplastics sensor fitted aboard his Nexans – Art & Fenêtres sailboat. The microplastic sensor continuously pumps and filters seawater; every 24 hours, Fabrice Amedeo changes the 300, 100 and 50 µm mesh filters and stores them aboard his monohull."

Who would have thought...

[blackpowder]

Future paleontologists will have something to track.

[sumdumguy]

Oh Right, some one is missing a lit of sleep concocting work streams. Guess there’s always s job for us when they take away our farms. We can float around and count “stuff” . Yesterday I heard the air in 99% of tje world was not fit for us to breath (due to fossil fuels). Geez Loo Eez

[furrowtickler]

And the Urban environmental crowd is being told we are to blame for pollution. The vast majority of us have lagoons or septic fields that do not enter the natural water systems and end up in Oceans . Vancouver and cities like Montreal are allowed to flush raw sewage directly into oceans .
Many other countries around the world are far worse . Yet we are going to be the sacrificial lambs in the name of climate change .