Category: Microplastiques

Ocean Wise’s Dr. Peter Ross talks to CBC’s Bob MacDonald about the role of microfibers in ocean pollution on popular science podcast Quirks & Quarks. In October, Ocean Wise released new research showing how home laundry releases microfiber pollution into the oceans. The authors of this report – Dr. Katerina Vassilenko, Mathew Watkins, Stephen Chastain, … Continued

The study estimates that 878 tonnes of plastic microfibers are released from Canadian and U.S. household laundry through wastewater treatment plants every year. The equivalent weight of 10 blue whales. A new Ocean Wise study is confirming that the fight against ocean pollution begins at home. With microplastic pollution now understood to be an emerging … Continued