2020
The paper The Widespread Environmental Footprint of Indigo Denim Microfibers from Blue Jeans examines the the footprint of modern blue jean society by investigating the environmental distribution, pathways, and sources of indigo denim microfibers shed by denim clothing. Microfibers comprised 87−90% of the anthropogenic particles found in sediments from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Laurentian Great Lakes, and shallow suburban lakes in southern Ontario.
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