New studies show that alarming numbers of tiny fibers from synthetic fabrics are making their way from your washing machine into aquatic animals

Tiny plastic fibers taken from a water sample in Blue Hill Bay in the gulf of Maine. 

Photograph: Marine Environmental Research Institute

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/20/microfibers-plastic-pollution-oceans-patagonia-synthetic-clothes-microbeads