Why should investors care about microfibre pollution?

More than 8,000 million tonnes of plastic have been manufactured since the 1950s, but only 9% of it has been recycled. Plastic is designed to be durable, so it lingers for years after it is no longer needed. Around 80% of all the plastic ever produced is now in landfills or the broader land and marine environment. Up to a quarter of the 10 million tonnes of plastic estimated to enter our oceans each year is microplastics - typically defined as being smaller than 0.5 mm in any dimension when they enter the environment. These tiny plastic particles have significant and long-lasting conseq...