Some plastic waste is too small to see with the human eye. These pieces of plastic are tiny, but the impact is huge! About 60% of material used in clothing is plastic. You may be wondering why this is an issue — we don’t normally litter our puffer jackets into our oceans, right?

Here’s the catch: every time you wash clothing fabricated with plastic, it sheds tiny plastic microfibres. These tiny pieces of plastic are up to 5mm in size, so most of the time you can’t even see them! Washing clothes causes half a million tonnes of plastic microfibres to enter our oceans every year. Because they are so tiny, microfibres have been found in the air, rivers, soil, rain, drinking water, table salt and even your Friday night beer!