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Your clothes are shedding bits of plastic. Here’s what people are doing this Earth Day
(www.nationalobserver.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2025
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Non-paywall original article: https://apnews.com/article/earth-day-clothing-synthetic-fibers-microfibers-microplastics-7ba38acebdb1ab73a6580f3196279553
I have to say, I'm pretty skeptical about the non-filter solutions here. Fibres are small. I don't think a net bag or plastic doohicky will catch many, unless someone can scientifically prove otherwise.
Even if the solution did work, now you have a doohicky full of microplastics. You can't throw it out because that puts you at square one. Are we shoving it in the walls like razor blades in the 70s and hoping for a solution in the future?
Being buried in a landfill would be better than in the water supply.
Would the co2 released from burning it be better or worse than the micro plastics?
It's a bit of an apples to oranges comparison, right? Microplastics don't cause any global warming, they're just a direct health risk to people and to wildlife, to some poorly-understood degree.
You really have to weigh one crisis against another, logically speaking. Unfortunately, it all gets jammed into "environmentalism" as one amorphous mass.