Washing your clothes made from synthetic fabrics like acrylic, nylon, and polyester causes them to shed hundreds of thousands of microplastic fibers. Now, new research shows that just wearing ...

Today we make more clothing than ever before. And the driver for this is primarily economic, rather than human need. Over the past decade, the term “circular economy” has entered the fashion industry ...

"Real solutions mean slowing and phasing out ... production." Researchers make concerning discovery in our clothes: 'Our findings show it is deepening the ... problem' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Tiny microfiber strands, washed into the ocean from laundering our clothes or from industrial wastewater, are polluting one of the most remote regions on Earth. While microplastics – those measuring ...

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The clothes we wear come with their own environmental baggage. Consider that a cotton T-shirt requires roughly 700 gallons of water to produce. Each year, the production of polyester emits roughly 1.5 ...

A heat map showing the distribution and concentration of fibers from the test blanket in 14 plots that were sampled. The bigger and darker the circle, the more fibers were found at the test location.

Polyester is a type of plastic polymer, which is a long chain of repeating molecular units. One of the most common polymers is polyethylene terephthalate or PET for short. It’s made from a combination ...