How Millions of Microscopic Fibers Are Ending Up in Our Bodies | The Swim
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- Опубліковано 4 лис 2018
- Every day, billions of sharp, invisible fibers are making their way out to our oceans and air, and into our water, wine, beer, and cells.
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How much plastic is your washing machine sending out to sea?
www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/...
"It’s no secret that too many of the plastic products we use end up in the ocean. But you might not be aware of one major source of that pollution: our clothes.
Polyester, nylon, acrylic, and other synthetic fibers - all of which are forms of plastic - are now about 60 percent of the material that makes up our clothes worldwide. Synthetic plastic fibers are cheap and extremely versatile, providing for stretch and breathability in athleisure, and warmth and sturdiness in winter clothes."
Will clothes companies do the right thing to reduce microfiber pollution?
www.theguardian.com/sustainab...
"Over the past few years, evidence has been mounting that synthetic textiles such as polyester and acrylic, which make up much of our clothing, are a major source of pollution in the world’s oceans. That’s because washing those clothes causes tiny plastic fibers to shed and travel through wastewater treatment plants into public waterways. These microfibers are sometimes inadvertently gobbled up by aquatic organisms, including the fish that end up on our plate."
15 Ways to Stop Microfiber Pollution Now
www.plasticpollutioncoalition...
"Think about all your clothing made of acrylic, nylon, and polyester. Yes, that means fleece, trousers, blouses, socks, and even your beloved yoga pants. Did you know? Every time you wash these synthetic fabrics, millions of microfibers are released into the water. Microfibers are too small to be filtered out by waste treatment plants, so they end up in our waterways and oceans, where they wreak havoc on marine animals and the environment.
Plastic fibers are now showing up in fish and shellfish sold in in California and Indonesia for human consumption. And one paper showed that microfibers are responsible for 85 percent of shoreline pollution across the globe. How can we stop this pollution?"
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"Whatever we put outhere, it eventually come back to us"👏👏👏
Exactly!
THEM: "We don't know what microfibers do to people but go ahead and panic anyway".
ME: "Sorry, I'm still busy being terrified of my aluminum cookware".
My doctor said I need more fiber and micro-nutrients in my diet. This solves both!!!
But seriously, does this mean cotton clothing is better for the environment?
It's synthetic fibers that we need to eliminate, so yes
The issue is strictly with plastic microfiber. Anything organic breaks down, including clothing. So try to buy less but higher quality natural clothes and sea-life will thank you. Also you won't sweat as much and humans will be happy too.
Ayyyy! Haven't seen you comment in a while friend! How's life!?
I just saw your other comment on that periodic videos' vid about the safety glasses. It's strangely bizarre seeing the same person in 2 recent vids haha. Subbed to the right channels I see.
But yet, cotton is difficult to product as climate changes and the plants are altered genetically and contain pesticides..
Jokes on you im wearing nothing
Joke's on you, you eat still.
That was a joke, just like yours. Don't get offended and spam.
Your pubic hair ends up in the ocean then. We are all eating your bush. Now we just need someone to make a joke about crabs and we'll be all set.
Hey cover up that microfiber.
It's in the air therefore on EVERY Surface 😥
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That was an incredibly irresponsible cboice for the washing machine companies to make. They could have instead made it easy to change, with a disclaimer about environmental necessity of it, and leave the customer to be irresponsible instead.
not in this world because money
They could have made more money by selling filters and adding failsafes to prevent operation without them.
If they call it a feature and tell you it gets your clothes cleaner, customers would want the filter.
Also you can sell them filters. Missed money making opportunity there.
These weren't as simple as replacing or cleaning the filter. this was a get a new washing machine or pay $500 every week or two for a technician.
I'd think the technology exists to deal with it (cyclonic separation seems obvious enough), but it's up to manufacturers to implement it. Might be something like patent encumbrance or who knows what keeping them from pursuing it though.
"A million little fibers" by Towley
I guess, in the not-so-distant future, we'll turn into -towels- peeersons.
"Ya wanna get high?"
"I have no idea what's going on right now"
They are collecting samples with buckets suspended by deteriorating ropes. Isn’t that a potential confounding source of these fibers? They probably thought if this already
the ropes fibers are hundreds if not thousands of times larger than the fibers they are looking at
It's a good point thought
Only if the rope is synthetic. A microfiber of any other material can naturally break down in the environment, but synthetic materials never break down.
That could be how they keep the numbers coming in, to help keep the funding flowing.
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And one ignorant, but at least careful, comment above starts the chain reaction of all the idiots who want to expand with paranoid drivel pulled out of their ass as if it's a natural or likely conclusion or a worthwhile thought to entertain. I'm assuming you're extremely suspicious of science in general for no apparent reason?
Let's research this for five more years, while corporate lobbies prevent all action and restrictions to the corporate products doing this. I mean, as if nature is more important than our economy and wealth of the richest people.
Doesn't solve the problem.... Politics is mostly after money, doesn't matter which party
@@highbullseye2460 well said
Will Pack I have to say I don't know much about politics in the USA, but in europe it's pretty clear that money is the key factor. Germany made promises to reduce co2 emissions by much (don't know how much exactly, but they failed to do anything in the right direction since the paris agreement in 2016). Now they were planning to destroy a forest for COAL!..... I'm pretty sure that if nothing changes in the way politics work, money will be the most important factor for them.
In my opinion politicians will change, but the important thing is: when?
KootFloris impossible. Not selling clothes or plastics for 5 years would destroy the economy and encourage illegal activity. Plastics are in almost everything nowadays.
Sea Gall noone said banning it. Just regulate it more strictly to form the economy to a less earth destructing behavior.
Microfibers are turning the frogs gay
😂👌
Your mom turning the frogs gay
Sorry couldn’t help it
It's funny because it's true.
Bless you for spreading the word
How do you know
Wait wait wait!!! So my LEGIT QUESTION! How does this possibly relate to Morgellons Disease? 🧐
Does this mean there’s a possible route of research to take on it?
Those pyramids at the end are all you need to know. They're going to blame polyester clothing. Yeah sure nothing to do with nano tech or the chemicals constantly sprayed in our skies almost daily for the last 25 + years smh 🤦🏿♀️
Same thing I’m thinking
The swim is so cool I love the idea of exploring the ocean!😘
I LOVE my microfiber blanket, Men's bathrobe with microfiber hood, and bed sheets...FLUFFFYYYYY!!!
I had no idea it was this bad, I feel so ashamed. I actually live in the countryside and have my own bio system and I use bio soaps etc.. But knowing that all that micro fiber is in the ocean is terrible.
What is safe for us now ? I think nothing
Aieshath Waheeda HEMP
Denouncing fictitious Gods is pretty safe.
Well,. I feel fine so imma drink my drink.
The thing is that we managed to pollute the water and air, which is what everything depends on, so yeah we fucked ourselves over.
dont listen to this crazy person they are just trying to get you to click.
The exact reason we need to support nudity in society today.
meowzerz and me hell no I’m cold
and have kids run around naked?
awsea No. Have only females aged 18-35 run around naked
@@kongming6327 They already run semi-naked in some southern societies.
Man were too deep into the clothing conspiracy to go back...ppl would rather the world go to hell than be naked...
Bought some pajamas at Walmart 3 months ago. They shredded all over my house into little balls that stuck like glue to everything till they disintegrated.
Thanks for sharing this
I remember when this was called Morgellans or something and was considered a hoax.
So very interesting! Thank you
Microplastics: 5,000 microns?
That can't be right
I was excited about The Swim because I thought it would be a documentary about a swimmer's journey across the Pacific. It would appear I was so very, very wrong.
Poor you 😢
This is a huge problem that I’ve never heard about.
Sure, I know of grey water after washing clothes but I didn’t even think about microfibres. 3-5million ingested per DAY!
how can we fix it?
Are these microfibers less dense than water by volume? If so wouldn't that mean they would float to the top??? Do they absorb some water to allow them to sink?
Dude!! I thought of this issue some time ago... like not to this extent but like when at a restaurant they wipe the wet plates with a piece of cloth which attaches the cloth's microfibres to the plate where the food is served and mixes with the food we eat and eventually finds its way to our gut!! but this right here is scary that all water bodies contain microfibre!!
true. but geez you should see all the spatulas that drop and stay on the floor ready to be used.
If your day wasn't bad enough...
there are a lot of dislikes... I wonder why... it seems like there are those who do not understand the importance of this video, I can imagine that a ton of viewers will buy natural fabrics and get rid of the toxic stuff... I am one of those... thanks for the info!!
Most filters may not catch particles that small anyways. They could probably add a centrifugal separator to laundry machines to help trap smaller particles during the rinse and drain cycles, and then there'd be a drum canister you'd have to empty. And that would be less prone to clogging than a usual filter as well. More or less it works like dust separation does on bagless vacuum cleaners, so it's not like a completely unknown technology.
They never explained IF the microfibers are having a negative impact! They just collected samples and said they will investigate further. I'm glad someone is looking into this but I have my doubts about it being dangerous.
Microfiber like nylon have BPAs leeching from fiber. Absorbing into skin and lungs.
Wait until more people have morgellon’s disease.
Interesting video.
great job kip it up
This video reminds me of that lady trying to sell me a $4000 vacuum. The 3 and a half hour demo was phenomenal every micro fibre in the carpet, couch and bed was sucked out, nothing close to what my vacuum can do. Unfortunately for her in the end I said no but thanks for vacuuming the place.
Kill La Kill live action is looking great
Soooo basically clothes are bad and we should get rid of them. I’m a fan!
Ahh! It's a good thing now we are eating high fiber food cheers Mate!
I been roofing for 3 years we tire off fiber glass all the time, this is bad news for me....
Life Fibers confirmed. Where are my scissors....
Cotton, linen, wool, leather. Problem solved.
It's actually pretty dang hard to solve this environmental issue. You would actually have to put some major polyester using companies to bankruptcy, like H&M. Plus, microfiber are cheap to make, making it cheap apparel. Nobody would be willing to give up cheap clothing!
They've been dispersing them from airplanes for years.
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It's the cat, his dang hair gets everywhere
Yet another thing to worry about! Yay
question: would one of those water filter pitchers take these micro fibers out of your drinking water?
Yes, osmotic membrane filter systems filter at the nanometer scale...
[MORGELLONS INTENSIFIES]
Is this how Morgellans was created?
I shined a light though my stomach and it looked like a star light effect like lit up fiber optic cables!
Send the military to stop micro fibers 😂
Just one more threat from the ocean. We need to eliminate this threat. The oceans needs to be paved over.
just another scar we've left on mother Earth
What is the charge that microplastics carry? Any Reference
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Morigellans episode?
Its 2018, Dumping is so 1950’s we have the technologies to filter correctly and recycle or even use plasmas when necessary to incinerate any dangerous substances. Bottom line all countries should have no excuse dumping sewage, garbage or anything in the sea anymore, development and infrastructure funds should go for these projects, no excuse.
Wait, isn’t that the plot of Kill la Kill? Next step fiber will be fiber based beings~
I can't believe *_Morgellons Disease_* wasn't mentioned..Maybe these fibers are too small to see--?
Kevin Phillips that’s what I thought this was going to be about, lol those people who think they have morgellons are seriously going to freak out if they see this.
@@BLAZENYCBLACKOPS It *_could_* be that the microfibers have a propensity to attract and gather each other, possibly resulting in a more visible thread shape, namely Morgellons. It's certainly an angle to pursue, though I get the impression that this investigation wants to be focused on a more general issue.
Kevin Phillips I was thinking the same thing
Yesss I was wondering if anyone else had that thought.
Yup. I've got morgellons. WTF
My doctor told me i should eat more fiber so this sounds great.
Its Chemtrails & Morgellons & its Nano fibers based off Tesla Tech
is tha majority of tha Problem laundry water may play a role
Don’t try and bring chemtrails here. Unlike microfibers, chemtrails are scientifically implausible due to the huge dispersion over a very extensive area (ever thought about why fumigation aircraft fly so low?), and contrails have been thoroughly inspected copious times for the chemicals the conspiracists claim there could be, with no results. Water, on the other hand, hadn’t been inspected for microfibers yet.
Nanotech delivery systems
Makes sense...
Does it goes into our plant also?
String theory confirmed
This implies there should be a better processing of water, not that people stop using synthetic, and/or stop washing clothes tho
Maybe the earth wanted microfibers but didn't know how to make them.
Excuses.... Geeze... Just so damn many microfibers huh. Lol
For starters we can mandate that all food grade applications of water go through that microfiber filter. If we can't filter the oceans we can at least filter water intake (/or outtake) treatment facilities or something.
I guess this is a good way to discourage over fishing ^^D
5:03 WTF..!..Christoph Waltz?
What if we started making the fibers larger?
One thing is for sure no one is getting out of this world alive there are bigger things to worry about
This remind me of towelie from South park - towelie a million little fibers
Is it possible that microfiber or nanoplastic is able to cause stroke in human?
Microfibers are small but don't let that distract from the fact that a nuclear threat is imminent unless those of us with a voice, speak up and speak out, don't let faith in humanity die
You are just trying to sweep Harambe under the rug with fake news.
The rope (unless organic) can easily add microfibers to their samples
In the chemtrails,food,air,rain,penetrate our skin
Morgellons? Watch out
I can't envision this becoming much of an issue in the end.
How is it going into bottled water when bottled water passes 5 micron water filter or less and reverse osmosis...
That's actually a good question.
Most bottled water isn't filtered that well. Also, microplastics make it through the filters and they are larger than microfibres
ghostperson204 Bottled water doesn‘t normally go though reverse osmosis.
ITS in your question.plastick bottle .that clear and thin plastik by time Will release micro plastik ITS self.may be not soon but it Will.
Because they're only 5 microns long but they're smaller on end. Hence the go right through the screen.
I wonder if this is related to Morgellons disease which is known as the fiber disease.
Been suffering from it for 7 years now and I’ve always felt like what I’m going through is a direct reflection of what is being done to our planet.
but it tastes so good you know
In "Kill la Kill" they call them Life Fibers.
So I worry about that microplastics in the future🤔😢
Woah
Im here for a good time. Not a long time
I was breathing micro-fibre glass while installing and restoring away air-condition in my room for the past 3-4 yrs. Then, I learned that I was supposed to cover my mouth and nose.... 😩
It's too late now though.
Hi, my name is Mansi, and I'm addicted to Micro-fibre glass. 🌚
I feel fine.
3:09 this is the reason why i don't like to swim on rivers and the sea, all that garbage and sewage end there.
just think about how much hair is circulating around. a large scale lint problem is no suprise
Do the microplastics and microfibers found in food release toxic gases when cooked?
I’m just hoping and praying that there will be a microbe that will digest these nanoparticle or microfiber. I know they made nanoparticle string that even with thousands of heat will not melt.
Wonderful, just another thing slowly harming us. Add it to the list
No wonder there are so many sickness with uncertain causes
Yay another thing we can add to the list of things that can potentially kill us
What’s next Microscopic Glass shards
*Isn't Fibre Good for you though?!* 😂😂😂
seems legit wearing a cloth shirt while working on samples.
If I only eat processed food, do I eat more or less plastics then those who eat "healthy"???
We must get together and evolve into more concerned residents of planet Earth .... Because Mars is a distant dream
I was complaining at work 5 months ago about this and they acted like I was crazy. Lost of manufacturing jobs have extremely high contents of microfiber but instead of doing something about it. They simply save the profits for the future. Thats one of the things wrong with today's world wealth that's simply jus sitting there.
I assume the research team works for Pym Technologies.
So we should have a filter in our water treatment centers and the microfibers will absorb all the contaminants we've put into the ocean as long as we pull them out of our water supply at the center.
Although I don't know the hidden upside of animals having microfibers. Need something to help them out.