Freshwater and airborne textile fibre populations are dominated by 'natural', not microplastic, fibres.

@article{Stanton2019FreshwaterAA,
  title={Freshwater and airborne textile fibre populations are dominated by 'natural', not microplastic, fibres.},
  author={Thomas Stanton and Matthew F. Johnson and Paul Nathanail and William Macnaughtan and Rachel L. Gomes},
  journal={The Science of the total environment},
  year={2019},
  volume={666},
  pages={
          377-389
        }
}
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