Problem

Synthetic clothing

Other Names:
Clothes made of artificial fibre
Cheap plastic clothes
Lack of quality apparel
Unnatural fabrics
Nature:

Society has moved from making clothes using biodegradable, recyclable natural products to highly resilient and nonbiodegradable plastics made with toxic chemicals. 

 

Incidence:

Microfibers are washed out of plastic fleece clothing, enter the water supply and become incorporated in the food cycle.

Problem Type:
G: Very specific problems
Date of last update
03.09.2017 – 12:43 CEST