- Wearing clothes could release more microfibres to the environment than washing them. one person could release almost 300 million polyester microfibres per year to the environment by washing their clothes, & more than 900million to the air by simply wearing the garments. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.9b06892# 6 comments science
Linking pages
- Wearing Polyester Clothes Sheds More Microplastic Fibers Than Washing https://www.intelligentliving.co/polyester-clothes-microplastic-fibers/ 108 comments
- Companies race to stem flood of microplastic fibres into the oceans | Plastics | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/30/companies-race-to-stem-flood-of-microplastic-fibres-into-the-oceans 17 comments
- Wearing Polyester Clothes Sheds More Microplastic Fibers Than Washing | Intelligent Living https://www.intelligentliving.co/polyester-clothes-microplastic-fibers/amp/ 16 comments
- Quantification of microfibre release from textiles during domestic laundering | SpringerLink https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-023-25246-8 11 comments
- ‘We can’t carry on’: the godfather of microplastics on how to stop them | Plastics | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/13/godfather-microplastics-richard-thompson-how-to-stop-them 4 comments