Microfibers are being shedded from your clothes and fabric. It’s a big problem. Here’s what you can do.

• Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic that measure less than 5 millimeters in length
• There are few places on earth where they haven’t been found

“We have a plastic pollution crisis,” said Alexis Jackson, a marine biologist and scientist with the California chapter of the Nature Conservancy, an environmental advocacy organization. “The face of that crisis looks a lot different [than we thought]. It’s not just plastic bags and soda bottles. It’s all of these microplastics that you can’t see with the naked eye that are pervasive in the environment.”

Read Your Laundry Sheds Harmful Microfibers. Here’s What You Can Do About It from the New York Times.