We may all eat their own clothes. Made of polyester garments infect the seas and oceans thinnest plastic fibers that are separated in the treatment process in a washing machine.
Recent years have seen the fashion items of clothing, having a pulling structure that fit the body and emphasize some of its best proportions. However, this effect is achieved through the use of artificial fabrics, polyester, which after some time are we in the stomach. We are talking about tiny plastic fibers during processing in the washer separate from the garment and washed down the drain. From there they make their way through runoff into natural waters, like rivers, into the sea, penetrate into fish body and thus introduced into the food chain.
We can talk about other synthetic materials, including nylon, elastane and acrylic. Studies show that these particles do enter the body of fish, lobsters, crabs and oysters, where it may be on the table at the man. All this allows to say that we eat our own clothes. Well harmful plastic stronger infects nature, and it will definitely affect human health. In the UK alone people buy twice more clothes than they were 10 years ago, They more often change to follow the laws of “fast fashion” which implies a rapid transformation of ideas from the catwalks or from the wardrobe of the stars in cheap synthetic clothes.
The market of synthetic fibers is increasing exponentially. From 2002 through 2016, the use of polyester in the textile industry of our planet has increased from 8.3 million tonnes to 21.3 million in Microfiber and sports clothing used in synthetic materials, are one of the main causes of plastic pollution of our rivers and oceans. (READ MORE)