Plastic was a good and useful invention, but too much is too much. Studies have shown that the earth is no longer to find a body of water, or just anything else place, where there would be plastic waste, either eyes to see stuff or small jauhautuu of micro plastic.
the studies of plastic is found in the marine food chain at all levels, plankton dolphins and other marine mammals.
washing can affect pollution in a large image in a small thing, but it is found significant even if the laboratory in hard-to-measure micro-plastic emission source.
the Problem of interference complicate the fact that the textile micro-plastics are secondary, i.e. they are not intentionally added to the product.
They are therefore not in the same way by law prohibited, as for example in cosmetics, skin refining used tiny plastic beads. Their denial of the citizens ‘ initiative is currently in the parliamentary reading (you move to another service).
the Old prejudice spin around the
a Recent study found one way, with secondary micro-plastics emissions it is possible to affect the home everyday activities.
the British Newcastle university (you move to another service) the scientists will tell himself mentions his surprise to discover that the washing machines delicate wash programs for removing synthetic clothes clearly more micro-plastics than the basic programs.
Earlier assumption and study the starting hypothesis was that the clothes gentle washing program for you are a plastic problem, in terms of better than normal programs.
the fine in the wash water is used up to two times as much as normal in the wash. When the clothes get insahn in the amount of water in the fibers probably came off less than a full washing drum tight in?
Hypothesis seems to justify also the fact that the normal program you’ll twist the washing machine drum rotation direction more often and slung a higher speed than the delicate wash programs. Such a miscarriage would think creepy micro-fibre textiles.
Experiments showed another.
Newcastle university researchers doing laundry. On the left, professor Grant Burgess and beside her Max Kelly and Neil Grant. Newcastle university / P&G
Earlier studies based on the mechanical synthetic laundry to contaminate bodies of water with up to six million micro-fiber. The newcastle scientists showed that great in the wash drains hulahti 800 000 micro fiber more than normal in the wash.
the Study of laundry in polyester clothes first washing machine to replicate positions in laboratory experiments and then in numerous right and a variety in the washing machine. Detachment of micro-fiber, the amount was calculated, the color imaging system.
polyester is a artificial, i.e. synthetic substances for the textile industry in general.
Loose water to accommodate the pump fibers
marine micro biology professor Grant Burgess to explain the unexpected result that the loose water in the clothes bump into each other more than when the water is less.
– Water is a space to penetrate through the fabric and pull on polyester fibers, add the research article to the lead author, doctoral researcher Mark Kelly .
Machines nukkasihti not enough to snatch the micro-fiber dirt out of the water and the water treatment plants don’t just have to stop micro-fiber way to surface waters and their organisms.
Some of the new washing machine models is becoming a micro fiber filter, but as of now the problems can facilitate avoiding the delicate wash programme and washing full loads, Kelly recommends.
the Study is published in Environmental Science and Technology (switch to another service) in the journal.
Tea bags proved to be plastic bombs
Another recent home of the doings in the micro-plastic study, found a nasty surprise tea drinkers who are enthusiastic about some of the manufacturers of the novelty. Under investigation were pyramid-shaped plastic to make bags which have replaced the traditional paper tea bags.
Doing a better taste in the name of the marketed bags can mean large amounts of micro – or even smaller nanomuovia hörppijän the body, a canadian, Mcgill university (you move to another service) research reports.
the electron microscope showed that the single bag of loose tea hautumista corresponding to the temperature of the water estimated at 11.6 billion micro plastic particles and 3.1 billion nanomuovi particles.
the Figures are one thousand fold compared with, for example, plastic water bottles content or any other food to the measured particle quantities. Professor Nathalie Tufenkjin according to the contributing factor though is that in other studies, is rarely calculated as small particles.
Pyraminidin shaped bag of tea leaves moving, and the tea flavor will improve, say the manufacturers. Pouches are made of plastic. Chaoshun Li / AlamyVesikirput stressed the plastic
the scientists made their finds in plastic particles effects on water fleas. In both physical and behaviour changes, Environmental Science and Technology (switch to another service) in the journal published study explains.
But whether it is big either particle numbers the importance of people, if the cup of tea in the plastic, the total weight is only milligrams of a sixth?
the micro – plastics impact on people’s health is not really studied at all. We our results indicate that investigation is necessary. Just think of them who drink two or three cups of tea a day, every day, Tufenkji said the Canadian broadcaster CBC (switch to another service) in an interview.
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