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Science News for Students: Cleaning Clothes Dirties Oceans

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Describes research into the pollution caused by plastics that are hidden in the fibers of synthetic clothing, and eventually end up in the ocean after laundering. Cites other research that discovered plastic pellets found throughout the sand of two beaches. [October 5, 2011]

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