Submitted on Monday 23rd April 2018
Rejected on Friday 27th April 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Legislation that all washing machines in UK have effective microfibre filters.
Microfibres are the most abundant form of microplastic pollution. Washing machines provide a pathway for fibres into marine and terrestrial environments. Many commercially important species ingest fibres with harmful consequences to theirs and human health (i.e. cancer).
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2. Browne, et al. 2011 - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es201811s
3. Lusher, et al. 2013 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X12005668#f0005
4. Watts, et al. 2015 - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.5b04026
5. Lönnstedt and Eklöv, 2016 - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6290/1213.full
6. Pauly, et al. 1998 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9610792
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