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The story about ocean plastic pollution usually centers on plastic bottles and other packaging. But clothing is another part of the problem: Every time someone washes something made from polyester or another synthetic fabric, tiny fibers flow down the drain a…

By Kate O’Neill, Associate Professor, Global Environmental Politics, University of California, Berkeley. Originally published at The Conversation Less than two years after China banned most imports of scrap material from abroad, many of its neighbors are fol…