Microplastics in Clothing: Why Natural Fibers are Safer for Skin
Every time you wash a synthetic garment, tiny fibres break off and travel down the drain. Every time you wear a polyester fleece, tiny fibres shed into the air around you. These fibres are microplastics: plastic fragments smaller than five millimetres, often far smaller, invisible to the naked eye. They are now found in oceans, …
