Your clothes are shedding bits of plastic. Here’s what people are doing about it this Earth Day
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Rachael Z. Miller, founder of the Vermont-based Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean, conducts a tape test on various clothing items to compare how much each material sheds microfibers on Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Granville, Vt. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)
Rachael Z. Miller, founder of the Vermont-based Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean, conducts a tape test on various clothing items to compare how much each material sheds microfibers on Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Granville, Vt. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)
Rachael Z. Miller, founder of the Vermont-based Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean, conducts a tape test on various clothing items to compare how much each material sheds microfibers on Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Granville, Vt. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)
Rachael Z. Miller, founder of the Vermont-based Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean, conducts a tape test on various clothing items to compare how much each material sheds microfibers on Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Granville, Vt. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)
Rachael Z. Miller, founder of the Vermont-based Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean, displays a Cora Ball, a laundry ball that can be tossed into the washer to cut down on clothes banging into each other and also catches microfibers, on Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Granville, Vt. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)
Rachael Z. Miller, founder of the Vermont-based Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean, examines a fleece jacket using a microscope to display the microfibers that make up a single garment on Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Granville, Vt. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)
Rachael Z. Miller, founder of the Vermont-based Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean, tosses a Cora Ball, a laundry ball that can be tossed into the washer to cut down on clothes banging into each other, on Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Granville, Vt. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)
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Rachael Z. Miller, founder of the Vermont-based Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean, conducts a tape test on various clothing items to compare how much each material sheds microfibers on Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Granville, Vt. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)