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by elindbe2 2018 days ago
That also means you can wear them forever though. You could probably wear out 3 cotton items for every one synthetic.
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Synthetic clothes shed microplastic particles in the wash. It's actually a significant source of plastic pollution. Cotton is kind of crap fabric and takes enormous amounts of water to grow, but wool and linen are both much more durable.