INDUSTRY UPDATE - Sound the alarm? Or have we overestimated the problems associated with microfibers & microplastics?!?
Big Closets Small Planet - A podcast by Michael Schragger
Between 2014 and 2016 an increasing number of journalists began reporting on disturbing new research showing that microfibers from synthetic garments were making their way from our washing machines into fish and other aquatic animals. Since then the textile industry has been scrambling to understand the extent of the problem and what our industry should do about it. It's now 2019, so what more have we learned since researchers first sounded the alarm? And what is our industry doing to address the challenge?