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Humans, Fish and Other Animals Are Consuming Microfibers in Our Food and Water
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 515" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/humans-fish-and-other-animals-are-consuming-microfibers-in-our-food-and-water/" target="_blank"><strong>Humans, Fish and Other Animals Are Consuming Microfibers in Our Food and Water - Truth Out</strong></a></p><p></p><p>It’s 7:48 pm on January 8, 2018, and rain is quenching San Mateo, California’s parched suburban streets. I park my car and don my waterproof jacket and pants, yank on knee-high plastic rain boots, and trudge over to Carolynn Box, science programs director for the <a href="https://www.5gyres.org" target="_blank">5 Gyres Institute</a>, and Diana Lin, environmental scientist with the <a href="http://www.sfei.org" target="_blank">San Francisco Estuary Institute</a> (SFEI). Standing on a footbridge over San Mateo Creek, we are all wrapped, head to toe, in foul weather gear — all of it plastic in one textile form or another. Box plunges a rigid plastic tube into the swiftly moving creek as Lin turns on a pump. Making a loud <em>wamp-wamp-wamp</em> sound, like a sewing machine, it slurps up a 5-gallon (19-liter) sample of water from the swiftly moving stream.</p><p></p><p>A passerby inquires what we’re up to. Someone quips, “We’re bottling water to sell it!” Everyone chuckles.</p><p></p><p>In fact, the creek sampling is part of a <a href="http://www.sfei.org/news/new-microplastic-pollution-study-launch-san-francisco-bay-and-adjacent-ocean-waters#sthash.AXLv5669.dpbs" target="_blank">two-year research project</a> in which SFEI and 5 Gyres are analyzing microplastics — synthetic fragments 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) or smaller — in water, sediment, fish and wastewater treatment plant effluent released into San Francisco Bay. This includes microfibers — thread-shaped microplastics — shed from synthetic apparel, like the clothes we are all wrapped in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 515, member: 1"] [URL='https://truthout.org/articles/humans-fish-and-other-animals-are-consuming-microfibers-in-our-food-and-water/'][B]Humans, Fish and Other Animals Are Consuming Microfibers in Our Food and Water - Truth Out[/B][/URL] It’s 7:48 pm on January 8, 2018, and rain is quenching San Mateo, California’s parched suburban streets. I park my car and don my waterproof jacket and pants, yank on knee-high plastic rain boots, and trudge over to Carolynn Box, science programs director for the [URL='https://www.5gyres.org']5 Gyres Institute[/URL], and Diana Lin, environmental scientist with the [URL='http://www.sfei.org']San Francisco Estuary Institute[/URL] (SFEI). Standing on a footbridge over San Mateo Creek, we are all wrapped, head to toe, in foul weather gear — all of it plastic in one textile form or another. Box plunges a rigid plastic tube into the swiftly moving creek as Lin turns on a pump. Making a loud [I]wamp-wamp-wamp[/I] sound, like a sewing machine, it slurps up a 5-gallon (19-liter) sample of water from the swiftly moving stream. A passerby inquires what we’re up to. Someone quips, “We’re bottling water to sell it!” Everyone chuckles. In fact, the creek sampling is part of a [URL='http://www.sfei.org/news/new-microplastic-pollution-study-launch-san-francisco-bay-and-adjacent-ocean-waters#sthash.AXLv5669.dpbs']two-year research project[/URL] in which SFEI and 5 Gyres are analyzing microplastics — synthetic fragments 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) or smaller — in water, sediment, fish and wastewater treatment plant effluent released into San Francisco Bay. This includes microfibers — thread-shaped microplastics — shed from synthetic apparel, like the clothes we are all wrapped in. [/QUOTE]
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