> Washing synthetic clothing like polyester, for instance, releases millions of microfibers per load of laundry, which then flow out to sea in wastewater. But recent research has found that the seas are in fact burping the particles into the atmosphere to blow back onto land, both when waves break and when bubbles rise to the surface, flinging microplastics into sea breezes. I can see why some people became environmentalists. This is disgusting. I hope we have a future where this crap gets filtered out of the wastewater before it goes into the ocean.