It’s synthetic clothing.
Wearing polyester or nylon sheds over 700,000 plastic fibers per wash...
And around 11,000 microplastic particles enter your lungs daily (with even more absorbed through your skin)...
We need a 500% tariff on all polyester plastic and synthetic clothing.
It’s one of the most harmful things in modern society that no one is talking about.
@FarmTender Wool industry has depended on lower wages and lower enviro standards. Processing is an industry many times that of wool growing. Processing remained in Australia might be even fewer sheep left. Maybe research and tech could lower labour costs for processing and allow onshore.
#keepthesheep shearing red tag wethers today and tomorrow ready for live export.
Today will employ a minimum of 20 people working in the industry. Shearers, shed staff, wool broker, AWI training instructors, stock agents, truck drivers, depo workers, dock workers, forklift.
Here's a fun fact.
It takes over 2.5x more CO2 to produce a polyester t-shirt than a cotton t-shirt.
Don't believe the lie that polyester is more "sustainable".
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