Bottles and bags, food wrap and straw. Piping, packaging, toys and trays. Plastic is everywhere – and still some people may be surprised to see how much they really wear.
A common closet is loaded with plastic, polyester activation, acrylic sweaters, nylon swimsuts and stretch socks are woven – and it spreads the environment nonstop.
When dressed, washed and kept through the dryer, they cut the plastic fiber pieces. A single burden of laundries can release millions of people that cannot capture them with such small waste water treatment centers. They blow the air on the local waterways attached to the sea. Marine animals eat them and it can go to plastic to larger animals and humans.
Even natural fabrics spread fibers and contains chemicals that can hang in the environment. Polyester, however, is about two-thirds of the world’s most used fiber and other synthetic fibers worldwide.
Tuesday Earth Day, when people worldwide think about ways to reduce their influence on the planet.
“Everyone who dresses and wears Landers is a part of this problem, but anyone who wear this problem and can be part of the Landers’ clothing,” Rachel Z Miller, the founder of the Vermont -based Rosalia project, says, for a clear ocean.
Simple changes such as to wash the cloth and use cold water instead of heat can help reduce the shades of fibers. The more challenging is that textiles need to be produced and used in a more durable way, Elisa Tonda said in the UN Environment Program. For example, designing clothing that spreads low microfibers and high quality high quality, Tonda, who led the resource and market branches, said.
Anja Brandon, director of Plastic Policy of Ocean Conservancy, says that less often washing clothes, getting less friction, creating less friction, creating less friction.
Brandon said, “They wander around and throw things designed for shaking things to remove dirt and spots for ribbons.”
Miller uses a stain stick in the spot-clin. Both say that when the clothes are washed, they spread less in the whole load to reduce the friction, spread on a short cycle, then hung dry.
Inspired by the way the coral filters the ocean, Miller Cora discovered the ball, a laundry ball that could be thrown into the wash to cut each other’s clothes. It also holds microfibers. (A portion of the ear goes on the Rosalia project)) Another option is to put synthetic cloth in a washing bag that captures fibers.
Which cloth is the most shed? Miller said, press a strip of clear packing tape for a garment, then stuck it on white paper to check the fibers, Miller said. The clothing that is loose is woven or knit is woven more flowing in more quantities such as lamb.
Miller said that people do not need to run out to throw clothes that are more likely to flow. He owns the lamb jacket himself. Instead, he suggested that these national clothing could only be worn inside the house with a layer above or outside, and it is worth thinking twice about acquiring more clothing like this.
Miller said, “I don’t try to make people feel guilty or terrify because many of these information are very new.” “And so we can simply say, ‘Okay, I got it. How can I be strategic about what I got?”
Filters can be added to the wash to capture the microfibers. Samsung Electronics Patagonia and Global Conservation Organization Ocean Waice assisted in 2023 in 2023, it is now sold in more than 20 countries for Front-load Washer. Bosh recently launched a microfiber filter in Europe for washer.
France first adopted a law that the new washing machines sold in the country have a microfiber filter, though the implementation has been delayed.
In the United States, the attempt to mandate filters in the state has failed. Governor of California. Gavin News gave a bill veto in 2021, saying he was concerned about the expenses for consumers and he wanted to encourage technology to remove the microfibes of waste water, not mandate. In Oregon, State Sen Dev Patterson proposed a bill this year to require microfiber filters in the new washer sold in the state after he arrived in Canada. Patterson said that the bill still does not have enough support but he will continue to try.
The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers oppose proposals that it is concerned about consumer expenditure and filter effectiveness.
Some large brands are experimenting with researchers to help researchers understand fiber refusal, including adidas, nike, leafonia and under armor.
They are established in 2018 for partnership with the UK microfibre consortium in the UK, to provide research and provide solutions to convert the textile production to more than 90 brands, retailers and manufacturers – including fiber breakup reduction.
About 1,500 clothes have been tested. Kelly Sheridan, chief executive officer of the consortium, said it was not a difficult problem to solve it.
Patagonia synthetic fiber was top in trying to spread the waste and water, he said that it is not possible to clean microplastics in the environment, it depends on the clothing brand to prevent it in the source.
It paid for his own research about his clothes involved a decade ago. The company worked to choose clothes and pigs with suppliers and finish their clothing in such a way that reduces shedding. They have cooperated with new filtration technology for washer, textile mills and municipal systems.
Global Products Vice President Matt Duer says one of their most well -known styles is known as “Better Sweater”, which is transferred from Virgin Polyester to recycling polyester. And in textile mills, there is a pre -east in the factory that can capture the first big shade, he adds.
Optimistic about the progress of the doer.
“Not only understands the problem and the opportunity of the problem, but also looking for all the path through the production cycle and the use episode,” he said. “It’s a whole new world than 10 years ago.”
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