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Every self-respecting outdoor enthusiast has at least one fleece jacket.

It's like a law of nature.

They're fluffy, warm, easy-to-clean, quick-to-dry, and often made from recycled plastic soda

bottles.

But before you get all granolier-than-thou about your environmentally-friendly wardrobe,

here's some sobering news: Lint from fleece may be polluting oceans and rivers.

We all know about the scourge of plastic floating around water systems worldwide.

We're talking trillions of plastic pieces, weighing in the millions of tons.

And the problem is not restricted to plastics that you can see.

You might remember the hoopla a few years back when researchers discovered that tiny

polystyrene microbeads added to personal care products to help exfoliate skin were getting

washed down drains.

Scientists found that fish and other water creatures were eating these beads—with seriously

negative health impacts.

We'll get to those in a second, but first, let's look at the new plastic menace.

You guessed it, lint.

Every time you toss your fleece into the washing machine, tiny polyester fibers, typically

less than a millimeter across, shed right off.

Sometimes there's as much as two grams of the stuff in every wash.

Unlike your dryer, your washing machine doesn't trap rogue lint, so the tiny plastic fibers

can end up going down the drain and out into nature.

And unlike natural fibers, such as silk and cotton, synthetic fibers can survive a long

time in the wild.

Although most of this synthetic material is caught by treatment plants before it ends

up in waterways, experts estimate that a lot of lint is still making its way into the aquatic

environment.

How much lint are we talking?

Well, let's assume every American owned only five synthetic garments.

And not just fleece, but also products including nylon and acrylic: Your favorite synthetic

sweaters, your quick-dry running wear, your yoga pants.

Let's also assume every American washes these items just once a month.

Based on these assumptions, the U.S. would send 60 metric tons of lint into natural water

systems every year.

And this could be a crazy underestimation given our love of synthetic fibers and our

tendency to wash our clothes a little more than once a month.

But why are folks so freaked out by tiny bits of plastic they can't even see?

Researchers have shown that eating these microplastics can disrupt natural feeding, breeding, or

survival behaviors in a variety of water creatures such as lugworms and medaka, AKA the Japanese

rice fish.

The plastics can also leach chemicals into sea creatures who ingest them.

These compounds include things like colorants, plasticizers, and other additives manufacturers

put into plastics when they're originally made.

But plastic bits and pieces also attract and adsorb persistent environmental pollutants

such as pesticides and flame retardants as they float around.

All these compounds enter the food chain when marine animals ingest the plastics, and there's

concern that they are bioaccumulating in the food chain.

Which means humans also might be getting an additional hit of persistent pollutants when

we chow down on seafood that has chowed down on plastic.

Although scientists are currently figuring out the precise impact on human health from

micro plastic pollution, there's no doubt we've got plastic on our dinner plates.

When scientists sampled the seafood at Half Moon Bay's market, a fancy foodie wonderland

just down the coast from San Francisco, synthetic fibers—including textile lint--were the

most common man-made material found in the market's fish and seafood.

They found plastic fibers in oysters, anchovies, Chinook, and other local fish.

Oh and there's also microplastic in sea salt, too.

In 2015, researchers measured 550 plastic particles per kilogram of ocean-derived Chinese

sea salt.

Makes you kinda want to reduce your salt intake, right?

While some scientists work to figure out how much of a health problem plastic presents,

others are wondering what can be done to reduce our consumption of these tiny fibers.

The environmental case against exfoliating microbeads was strong enough to spur U.S.

legislators to prohibit their use in wash-off personal care products.

But it's sort of hard to imagine how policy-makers could outlaw plastic lint.

So some groups are looking at ways to trap these tiny fibers before they end up in the

water system, say at water treatment plants or even in your washing machine.

For example, the Rozalia Project, an anti-ocean pollution group, is developing a microfiber

catcher for use in washing machines.

How would you cut down on lint pollution?

Let us know in the comments.

Would you be willing to wash your favorite synthetics less often?

The smell on your fleece might increase, but so would your enviro street cred.

For more infomation >> The dark side of synthetic fleece—Speaking of Chemistry - Duration: 4:32.

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Glow in the Dark Halloween Card with Whimsey Stamps and Prisma Pencils - Duration: 9:21.

hi and welcome to hedgehog hollow today I'm here again with whimsy stamps and I

have a spooktacular design team card for you using one of their new Halloween

sets this is the car we're going to create we've also got this fun Doodlebug

background plus I'm going to show you how to create some glow-in-the-dark

words so let's get started so we are using the whimsy stamps boo to you stamp

set it's so cute you've got this little witch and I matching who I've already

stamped out here we also have this fun goes with a boo and we have this

Frankenstein as well plus we have it's scary and you're too cute so I've

already stamped this out as I said previously I started out with my my

favorite things hybrid black and I also had this Doodlebug news 6x6 paper pad in

my stash and there's a little cute witch let me lift her up here so you can see

her just here with this lovely little purple hair and little black outfit on

my thought she was so sweet she reminded me of the witch on here so that's

exactly how I'm going to color her head in exactly the same ways and I may be

using my prismacolor pencils today so I have my black drawer here which

everybody just put at the top of the shot and I also have my orange

flesh-tone pinks and my purples in this drawer and I'll link up my marker wall

in your screen top right right now which will show you how or where these drawers

are from and how I organized my preset of pencils so I am going to start with

and blacks and they all have these great names on them so this is my Browns these

are my shades of grey so we actually have this organized in the prismacolor

pencil the chart order and I have every row of the color chart equates to one of

these it all it bins in here so I'm going to get currying I'm also going to

be blending with my gum so I have my paper stump here I actually just dip my

paper stump into my gum saw and then just scratched out the color onto the

side of my cardstock

you

I think they came out so cute and I completely forgot about her purple hair

but what I did do afterwards as well it's just grab a dark purple Copic my

v17 and I just went over the top and I think that really makes her hair pop in

lifts so you can see she's got that gorgeous purple hair as well and I also

love how kitty came out let me lift him up you'll see that I did some little

patches on him in the ginger and I think he looks like he's glowing as well which

will suit something else I've done on here too so here is my card base he said

eight and a half by eleven cut in half I actually just trimmed these characters

out using my scan and cut because I didn't have the coordinating dies I'm

going to stick on a piece this is a lawn fawn orange cardstock so I'm just

sticking on the front here and I like to lay out with my cardstock front of me

like this and then I'm going to use a piece of this cute Doodlebug Boogle

paper this you'll also see feature later in the week in my top five full picks

it's just so so sweet I love it the whole collection is absolutely gorgeous

I also have some of the little Spidey clips and things as well

so I pre-cut this piece down to mats on there and it's got this lovely design on

the back which I've also used because they complement each other so nicely so

let's stick that on there's also coordinates with those really fun I

stickers I'll link those up for you too they were quite hard to get hold off for

awhile but super super cute so the other thing that I did was on the scrap piece

that I had so I had hopes with scraps once I'd cut down my card front size

this is on the reverse so I stamped with a Versamark the it's scary that's part

of the stamp set so there was a couple of sentiments in there you've got the

you're too cute and the it's scary I stand to reverse smut and I embossed

it using the WoW glow-in-the-dark embossing powder super fun to work with

this loving the glow-in-the-dark this year as a bit of a trend for Halloween

and then just cut it on the angle here because

once it is embossed this embossing powder shows up almost clear so I then

filled in with a black marker I just used a tonic Nouveau marker whether it's

got its nice fine nibble on this end and I went and I filled in the it's carry

and what that will do is you will see now on your screen how cool does that

look in the glow in the dark so that's what I did are there and I'm going to

mount this on with a piece of foam tape so nothing as I say this glow in the

dark you may have seen I also did a glow-in-the-dark mandala the other day

that was a great fun as well so those are tips scary now we can add our cute

little girl and count on that I do think they need some names though so feel free

to offer some ideas for naming them up I was thinking of Winnie the witch that my

daughter used to love mani Lisa loved that when she was a little I'm just

cutting some appropriately sized strips to go on the back here

he's back and then I'm going to put her on first then I happen to know but he's

or maybe it's a her cat cat who's in there and the other thing I want to do

is add a little bit of dimension to this I'm gonna grab some glossy accents and

I'm going to fill in this piece on here

and I feel super light touch as well so you know put some tag there make it look

like a nice glossy broom-handle I also tend to like to do that eyes I think it

really brings out the eyes like so so there is our first Hedgehog Halloween

card for you I hope you have enjoyed following along with me today some of

the pictures we took are on the screen as well including that fab

glow-in-the-dark one all of these pictures will also be on the Hedgehog

Hollow blog click below the video to see those plus all of your supply lists and

of course we're free to pin or share any of the images for future reference

thanks so much for joining me today and I will see you again very soon with some

more inspiration don't forget to hit that Hedgehog subscribe button that's

just a pin on your screen I'll see you again very soon happy stamping bye

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IN THE DARK ♫| Halloween Song for Kids (with Ghosts and Skeletons) | Pancake Manor - Duration: 2:14.

In the dark

Are they coming for me in the dark?

It's shadowy in the dark

I can hear it breathing

In the dark

What's under the bed In the dark?

Skeleton head in the dark

Monsters peeking That's when I sing

I'm not afraid not afraid of the dark

I've got my own light to chase the night away

I'm not afraid of the things I can't see I'm, not afraid (I'm not afraid)

In the dark

Is that a ghost in the dark?

What scares me most in the dark

Is the closet creaking The creepers creeping

But I'm not screaming!

I'm not afraid not afraid of the dark

I've got my own light to chase the night away

I'm not afraid of the things I can't see I'm not afraid (I'm not afraid)

I'm not afraid not afraid of the dark

I've got my own light to chase the night away

I'm not afraid of the things I can't see I'm, not afraid (I'm not afraid)

of the dark

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"TOKYO" Dark Trap Beat Instrumental 2018 | Hard Dope Rap Hiphop Trap Type Beat | Free DL - Duration: 3:08.

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The Division - THIS COULD BE DARKZONE BEST BUILD 1.7.1 INSANE 3V8 MANHUNT?! MUST SEE DARK ZONE PVP - Duration: 4:37.

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