Fashion’s Plastic Paralysis: How Brands Resist Change and Fuel Microplastic Pollution
International fashion brands are doubling down on their use of synthetic fibres – a key driver of microplastic pollution.
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Washing synthetic clothing in laundry machines releases a discharge containing a high number of microplastics into the environment via wastewater. Microplastics can harm wildlife, nature and human health. Once released into the environment, microplastics remain unchanged and are nearly impossible to recover.
From Pollution to Solution: How the Fashion Industry Can Combat Microplastic Pollution and Lead the Way to Sustainability
This article provides a comprehensive review of the sources, impacts, and solutions to microplastic pollution, emphasizing targeted strategies for waste management, innovative materials, policy interventions, and public awareness to mitigate environmental and human health risks.
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Microfiber Shedding – Environmental Concerns and Proposed Solutions
Microfibers are small fragments that are actively shed from textiles throughout their lifecycle.1 Most often, these fragments are composed of plastic and derived from synthetic
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Microplastics: 10 Facts by Dr. Imari Walker
All forms of synthetic fibers release microplastic. The textiles are responsible for the majority of microplastic pollution.
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Microplastics – The Scope of the Problem
Microplastics readily enter water sources, mainly through the washing of synthetic textiles in laundry washing machines. Urgent action is needed.
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- Environment and health challenges of the textile industry in Bangladesh, with Dr Shahriar Hossain from ESDO in Bangladesh
- How textile waste piles up in the Global South with Gilbert Kuepouo, Cameroon
- Sanitary pads and toxic-free textile solutions with Priti Mahesh from India
- Female textile workers in Bangladesh with Siddika Sultana, ESDO Bangladesh