Microfibres from dryers (IMAGE)

City University of Hong Kong

Microfibres from dryers

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CityU research finds that a single clothes dryer can discharge up to 120 million microfibres annually, which is 1.4 to 40 times of that from washing machines.

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Danyang Tao et al. /DOI number: 10.1021/acs.estlett.1c00911

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