Microplastics: From Your Laundry to the Sea

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Maybe you've heard of microplastics in our water sources. But did you know they could be coming from your laundry??

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Plastics can be super useful. But some of the properties that make them helpful in our day to day lives, like their indestructibility, also make them a potential problem because they just never go away. Today I want to talk about microplastics: what they are, where they are, and how we can try and keep them out of the environment.

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