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Aren't we better off not using microfibre plastics to make clothes in the first place?

• bjelkeman-again 7y ago
  Yeah, I have been thinking that too. But something like cotton also has a big impact on the environment. I don’t have enough info to mske a meaningful comparison of impacts though. http://www.theworldcounts.com/counters/cotton_environmental_impacts/environmental_issues_with_cotton http://www.theworldcounts.com/counters/cotton_environmental_...
  • hanniabu 7y ago
    Cotton doesn't have the same lingering looking lasting effects.
    • AstralStorm 7y ago
      It's all fine as long as your clothes are reused, even into rags. The very flexible microfibers probably are not a hazard on the level of microplastics. Edit: they actually do pose this exact problem, though the filter in washing machine is supposed to catch all that. It doesn't.