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Your Blue Jeans Are Polluting the Arctic – Gizmodo Australia

Since quarantine began, I’ve donned nary a pair of jeans. Sweatpants? Hell yeah! Dresses? Glorified pajamas, I say. But blue jeans? To sit on the couch all day? Couldn’t be me. Well, it turns out that by leaving my jeans in the closet and not wearing and wash…

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Since quarantine began, Ive donned nary a pair of jeans. Sweatpants? Hell yeah! Dresses? Glorified pajamas, I say. But blue jeans? To sit on the couch all day? Couldnt be me. Well, it turns out that by leaving my jeans in the closet and not wearing and washing them, I may be preventing itsy bitsy denim fibres from entering far-off waterways.
In a new study published by the American Chemical Society on Wednesday, scientists considered blue jeans as a source of microfibers, or teeny tiny pieces o…

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