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12-07-2017

Microplastics: from clothing to the sea.

For every 6 kg of polyester fabric we put in the washing machine, we release about 4 g of plastic microfibres for the pipes, which will go to the sea and contaminate the water, bottoms and trophic networks around the world. Plastic pollution is a known threat - but not much studied - in oceanic ecosystems around the world. The program "QUÈQUICOM" of Channel 33 issued a new chapter entitled "Microplastics: from clothing to the sea."

The professor Jacob González-Solís participates in the program (twitter: @ seabirdecology), of the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences and of the Institute of Biodiversity Research (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, ​​author of research work on the ingestion of plastics in seabirds in the Mediterranean - a fragile ecosystem, with industrialized costs, a marine interstate and a high density of accumulated plastics - and Professor Anna Sànchez-Vidal, a member of the Consolidated Research Group (GRC) of Geosciences Marines of the Faculty of Earth Sciences of the UB, who has participated in scientific studies that confirm that contamination by microplastics reaches the most remote ocean regions, so that in some marine bottoms can be found up to four billion Microscope plastic fibers per square kilometer.

Àngels Rovira, researcher in Advanced Materials (LEITAT) and Salvador Borrós, director of Materials Engineering Group (IQS), also participate in the new chapter of "QUÈQUICOM", where Jordi Mota and David Borràs Dardi collaborate.

Link to the video

http://blogs.tv3.cat/quequicom