Pastic pollution

Why your laundry is littering the ocean with plastic

Thanks to graphic images of seals choking on plastic debris, we're more aware of keeping plastic out of the ocean, except when it comes to the plastic litter from our laundry.

Laundry? Yes. Each time you load up the washing machine, synthetic fabrics such as polyester, derived from plastic, shed microfibres that end up in the ocean via the waste water from our laundry.