How your clothes are poisoning our oceans and food supply

New studies show that alarming numbers of tiny fibers from synthetic fabrics are making their way from your washing machine into aquatic animalsThe first time professor Sherri Mason cut open a Great Lakes fish, she was alarmed at what she found. Synthetic fibers were everywhere. Under a microscope, they seemed to be "weaving themselves into the gastrointestinal tract". Though she had been studying aquatic pollution around the Great Lakes for several years, Mason, who works for the State University of New York Fredonia, had never seen anything like it.New studies indicate that the fibers in our clothes could be poisoning our waterways and food chain on a massive scale. Microfibers - tiny threads shed from fabric - have been found in abundance on shorelines where waste water is released. Continue reading...