On 02/01/2018 09:41, alan_m wrote:

There was a lot of concern about plastic micro-beads entering the food
chain but I now read that a bigger concern is the use of washing
machines. Washing synthetic materials in a washing machine results in
microscopic particles of the material being shed and being flushed down
the drain in the rinse cycle.

What do the greenies expect us to do? Go back to cotton and linen shirts
and sheets? Or homespun woollen smocks?

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Max Demian