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Now watch out for dental floss - many brands are a single strand Teflon. Don’t wear most water repellent gear and definitely not goretex, although finally non
by mint2 3y ago
Now watch out for dental floss - many brands are a single strand Teflon.
Don’t wear most water repellent gear and definitely not goretex, although finally non pfas options are being phased in.
Avoid compostable to-go containers, many are lined with ptfe.
It’s really everywhere
- mikestew 3y agoDon’t wear most water repellent gear and definitely not goretex I’m willing to be shown wrong on this, but unless you’re eating your GoreTex jacket, I don’t think it works that way. I am not going to absorb PFAs through my skin by wearing a GoreTex jacket.
- monetus 3y agoThis is more like receipt paper, where you shouldn't put your hands in your mouth after touching it. The coating washing off into the water supply is what nags me.
- mikestew 3y agoGoreTex clothing doesn’t have a “coating”. The GoreTex part is typically laminated between sheets of (most commonly) some kind nylon cloth. The exception would be GoreTex Shakedry jackets, which are just big sheets of GoreTex without the nylon layers. Again, that’s just not how it works. It’s the manufacturing of these garments that’s the problem. Once they’re made and sold, I’ve seen no evidence that the garments aren’t safe to wear.
- monetus 3y agoThe outer layer is what I was referring too - you're right, it isn't a spray on coating and it isnt all goretex branded. The polymer is pretty durable, but it breaks apart eventually. It goes into the water eventually when washed. The instructions for washing some of these jackets explicitly say that they wash away. Relatively, this supposed to be negligible compared to the runoff of other industrial uses at least.
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