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Microplastics are everywhere. The more new studies we read, the more we find out about the billions of very small plastic particles that are all around us — even inside our bodies! Here's yet another source of microplastic pollution you might not have known about: our washing machines. In fact, a survey has found that 60% of people in the UK didn't know that microplastics are shed from our clothes, towels and sheets when they're washed. These microplastics then find their way to the oceans. That's the bad news. However, good news is that more and more campaign groups are calling for governments to take action. In the UK, several campaign groups worked together to present a paper to the government at the start of March, asking for all new washing machines to be made with microplastics filters. These filters, which are already used in some machines, can catch 99% of microfibers that clothes shed in the wash, according to a company called Xeros, which makes the filters and did the survey.

Microplastics are everywhere. The more new studies we read, the more we find out about the billions of very small plastic particles that are all around us — even inside our bodies! Here's yet another source of microplastic pollution you might not have known about: our washing machines. In fact, a survey has found that 60% of people in the UK didn't know that microplastics are shed from our clothes, towels and sheets when they're washed. These microplastics then find their way to the oceans. That's the bad news. However, good news is that more and more campaign groups are calling for government

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