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Fleece clothing a "serious pollutant"—it's made of plastic, after all
lundi 6 mai 2024, 19:56 , par BoingBoing
Most 'fleece' is just extruded plastic filament and its use in clothing is, according to clothing company Patagonia, a serious source of pollution. Washing them results in microplastic soup, which then heads into the sewers and hence to the seas.
During laundering, a single fleece jacket sheds as many as 250,000 synthetic fibers—significantly more than the 1,900 fibers Browne first recorded. — Read the rest The post Fleece clothing a "serious pollutant"—it's made of plastic, after all appeared first on Boing Boing.
https://boingboing.net/2024/05/06/fleece-clothing-a-serious-pollutant-its-made-of-plastic-after-all....
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