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Category: Microplastiques

Une nouvelle étude révèle que les filtres de sèche-linge peuvent capturer jusqu’à 80 % des microfibres en suspension dans l’air.

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VANCOUVER, C.-B. (19 novembre 2025) – Un article de recherche publié aujourd’hui dans la revue Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry évalue l’efficacité des systèmes de filtration secondaire des sécheuses et constate que certains dispositifs peuvent capter jusqu’à 80 % des microfibres avant qu’elles ne pénètrent dans l’air. Pour déterminer l’efficacité des filtres secondaires pour sèche-linge, le … Continued

Microfibers in the Ocean: Impacts on Zooplankton and the Food Web 

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The Ocean Wise Plastics Lab recently published findings from new microfiber research, conducted in collaboration with our partners at the University of British Columbia. In this blog, we explore the role of zooplankton in the ecosystem, and introduce the impacts of microfibers.    What are zooplankton and why do they matter?   Zooplankton are a group of … Continued

Sailing for Microplastic Solutions

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Dr Shreyas Patankar, PhD was invited to represent Ocean Wise as a microplastics expert at the 5 Gyres ‘Sailing for Solutions’ expedition.   In late September, the 5 Gyres Institute in California and Materevolve organized a sailing research expedition in the San Francisco Bay for a focused conversation on solutions to microfibers in the ocean. A … Continued

Microplastics Have Found Their Way into Our Compost

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A Bathtub Full of Compost Would Contain 1 Plastic Grocery Bag Equivalent of Microplastics!  From the moment you use that single-use plastic straw, wrap, or bag, it is destined to end up somewhere in our environment. Every piece of plastic ever created still exists in some form. Over time, plastics break down into smaller pieces … Continued

Microplastics and Manta Nets – Sailing Away with SailGP Canada 

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The Ocean Wise Plastics Lab is teaming up with the Canada SailGP team to sample microplastics on a global scale. Ocean Wise research scientist, Kevin Landrini, traveled to Saint Tropez, France to meet with the Canadian team and show them how they can help incorporate conservation science into sailing.   SailGP is an international sailing … Continued

A Day in the Life of a Plastics Lab Researcher 

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By Anneka Vanderpas In 2021, 160 young people (ages 18-30) joined Ocean Wise’s OCEAN BRIDGE PROGRAM, a national team engaged for eleven months in co-creating and delivering ocean and waterway service projects for their home communities. DIRECT ACTION is an exciting immersive program for in-depth learning and youth engagement with oceanic and aquatic conservation efforts … Continued

Ocean Wise’s new study offers hopeful solutions to microfiber pollution from clothing

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A groundbreaking new study by Ocean Wise, “Domestic laundry and microfiber pollution: Exploring fiber shedding from consumer apparel textiles”, published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE, finds it is possible to drastically reduce microfiber pollution through a combination of solutions in home laundry, manufacturing and textile design. Microfibers –fibers less than 5 mm long – … Continued

Calling all geniuses for the Microfiber Innovation Challenge

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Ocean Wise is proud to support Conservation X Lab’s launch of a global innovation competition with $650,000 in prizes to prevent plastic microfiber pollution Conservation X Labs, an innovation and technology company that spurs solutions to the extinction crisis, has teamed up with a global coalition of partners, including Ocean Wise, to launch an innovation … Continued

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