How washing your clothes is polluting the ocean

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Lisa Erdle, a PhD student at the University of Toronto, is studying two species of fish from Lake Huron and Lake Ontario and says she found as many as 100 microfibers from synthetic fabrics per fish in her research. “We should be looking at what some of the effects are in humans,” she says. “There’s enough to cause concern.” Read and listen to the full story by CBC Radio.

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