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You are correct. The majority of micro plastic pollution to soil and water comes from synthetic clothing. Cotton, wool, linen, hemp.. we have options people!
by pibechorro 5y ago
You are correct. The majority of micro plastic pollution to soil and water comes from synthetic clothing.
Cotton, wool, linen, hemp.. we have options people!
- rini17 5y agoRight but...how did you extrapolate from indoor lint to all soil and water? What about all the other non-clothing plastic and rubber noone wants to pay for proper recycling or incineration?
- wizzwizz4 5y agoWashing clothes, I would assume.
- hinkley 5y agoWashing clothes sends microplastics to the water treatment plant. Notwithstanding leaky sewer systems (and especially combined stormwater systems), that's a centralized problem that can be solved in one spot. Drying your clothes is a point source problem. Every dryer vent is spewing microplastics into every yard and street. The lint trap only catches the largest fibers.