Equal To 50 Billion Plastic Bottles A Year! How Your Daily Laundry Is Silently Polluting The World, And Your Dinner

Equal To 50 Billion Plastic Bottles A Year! How Your Daily Laundry Is Silently Polluting The World, And Your Dinner

News science Equal To 50 Billion Plastic Bottles A Year! How Your Daily Laundry Is Silently Polluting The World, And Your Dinner Last Updated:November 12, 2026, 6:16 PM IST Washing synthetic garments pours an estimated 500,000 tonnes of microfibres into the world’s oceans every year Once synthetic textile fibres escape household drains and enter waterways,…

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Asked For A Takeaway Coffee? The Cup May Contain Thousands Of Microplastics

Asked For A Takeaway Coffee? The Cup May Contain Thousands Of Microplastics

Your daily takeaway coffee might be delivering more than just a caffeine boost. New research published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials: Plasticscoauthored by Xiangyu Liu from Griffith University, has found that plastic cups or paper cups with a thin plastic lining could shed thousands of microplastic fragments into hot beverages. As takeaway culture becomes…

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