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Water Contamination and Impacts of Synthetic Microfibers Pollutants to the Global Ecosystem
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Researchers reviewed the sources and environmental impacts of synthetic microfibers, a category of microplastics shed primarily from textiles during washing, highlighting their widespread presence in water systems and their potential harm to aquatic ecosystems globally.
We live in a plastic era, and microplastics (MPs) (shorter than 5 millimeters in length)—the smaller pieces of plastic broken down from larger ones—find their sources from a variety of plastic polymers. Microplastics are often classified into three...
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