Chemical container washes up on Mustang Island
A large chemical container washed ashore on Mustang Island Wednesday evening and firefighters are treating it as a threat.
The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's award-winning ``Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions'' podcast series discusses the discovery that household washing machines seem to be a major source of so-called ``microplastic'' pollution -- bits of polyester and acrylic smaller than the head of a pin -- that researchers now have detected on ocean shorelines worldwide.