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11/06/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Contact lenses contributing to the microplastic pollution of our waterways

If you are getting rid of your old contact lenses, put them in the trash instead of flushing them out of sight. Discarded lenses in wastewater might be raising the amount of toxic microplastics that contaminate waterways and aquatic life, an article in Science Daily stated. Nothing lasts forever. This is especially true for contact […]

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