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City says car shredder may be harmful to residents’ health, compares company’s legal claim to ‘shredder fluff’
Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Administration said in a court filing Thursday that residents’ health may be harmed if the city issues an operating permit to a car-shredding operation on the Southeast Side — as its owners have demanded — before environmental studies can be completed. The statement was made in filings for a lawsuit brought by …
Plastic pollution: Washed clothing’s synthetic mountain of ‘fluff’
Image copyright SPL Image caption Polyester and nylon fibres: We began our collection of synthetic clothing in the 1950s When you add it up, the total amount of synthetic microfibres going into the wider environment as we wash our clothes is an astonishing number. US scientists estimate it to be 5.6 million tonnes since we …
