Every time a washing machine runs, 700,000 microfibers are released into the ocean, which damages the environment and can even harm people’s health, as microplastics have been detected in humans.
Appended 2026-10-02 after the existing entries (D15) by the contents audit (check_2023_contents.py, issue #26). The volume contents run over two pages; the first capture read only the first, so the trends listed on the second were missing.