Name: Fashion's toxic threads | The Economist
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fashion is a 1.3 trillion dollar industry,

but it comes with a hefty environmental price tag.

for depleting water sources and contaminating

Chemical waste from clothes manufacturing

and some estimates suggest the fashion industry

This man is known as the godfather of microplastic research.

In fact, Professor Richard Thompson invented the term.

Microplastics are basically just small fragments

of plastic that are accumulating in the environment.

His latest research has uncovered something

that has sent shock waves around the fashion industry.

significant increase in the quantities of microplastic

and a lot of what we found in that study was plastic fibers.

nylon, and acrylic are made of plastic fibers.

These degrade and break up in a washing machine cycle.

that could release up to 700,000 fibers in a single wash.

Now that's gonna go to waste water treatment.

The data suggests that they are accumulating year on year.

the use of polyester by the global garment industry

increased from 8.3 to 21.3 million tons annually.

1/3 of the fish that I collect from a sample

10, 20, 30 years time, the quantities in those organisms

in the food chain, and even in humans, are still unknown.

But Professor Thompson's discovery is ringing alarm bells.

When I talk to designers, they tell me that

shedding of fibers, and indeed, end of life recyclability

are making some fashion brands go back to the drawing board.

Tom Kay has spent his life around the ocean.

In 2003, he launched a brand that creates

His company is experimenting with different design processes

in order to lessen it's environmental impact.

If you take design, a lot of it at the minute,

We really have to address the root of the problem,

and that's redesigning out harmful fibers, harmful fabrics,

It's developed a recycled polyester insulation for jackets,

and has created its very own wetsuit recycling program.

and recycle it time, time and time again.

Finisterre's design team has also returned

to one of the oldest materials known to man.

[Deep Female Voice] I actually really love it in the navy.

We've been big fans of wool since we started.

It's biodegradable and it's fully traceable.

are assessed on their environmental performance

All the upper is made from 100% plastic bottles

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