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This 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 nag

• mikestew 3y ago
  GoreTex 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 ago
    The 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.
    • monetus 3y ago
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