It blows my mind that one day in the past there was no plastic, then someone invented/discovered it, thought they were helping human advancement and had no idea how harmful it would be. Sometimes we are so clever and sometimes we are so stupid. Thing is, there are 7 billion of us, how can we completely replace plastic with something else? There's only so much materials to use in the world, is there such a thing as a perfect material? 😦 We are so reliant on plastics for things like sterile packaging of medical supplies etc. I wish there was some magical solution.

i think globalization is the biggest issue.. whether it is food, clothes or other things i think it would be better if they were produced locally. Less transportation cost and more individuality

How does everyone handle knowing all that we know about climate change and the fears it brings for our environment but also for us and our children? I feel like my fear spirals out of control sometimes

Acrylic yarn is made from petroleum &can’t be in the sun & I’ve been using it for years on the kids! I’m going to help keep a few sheep cool in the summer from now on. Natural fibres

I am avoiding the polyester clothing the most way I can, bc it is simply uncomfortable, hot and I sweat like hell in them and it smells for a long time. And btw, I have the few pair of shorts which are over 10 years old and they are in very good condition (two of them are jeans, one are cotton) and I just like them. I simply cannot understand the need, or maybe "need", of having new piece(s) of clothing every month/season. Why? What for? Where do you wear them? How many times a day you change? Meh...

I remember a time that it was embarrassing to wear polyester. Now we are trained to think it is perfectly fine. Yet we have more health problems than ever.

I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE the sensation of polyester fabric, particularly when it is ONLY polyester as it's fabric content. It feels wrong when touching my skin and as a result, I end up wanting to ABSOLUTELY crawl THE FUCK OUT of my skin. While spandex and acrylic and of course cotton are not a whole much better in ethics, I can at least tolerate staying inside my skin. And yes, I am on the Autism spectrum if that explains anything.

it's so hard now to find clothes without polyester or elasthan in fast fashion stores, its better in sustainable stores. i only wear shirts and jeans with 100% cotton. its even harder with underwear and socks, bit there are some that i find and love. the only things with polyester would be my jackets and hats for the winter and gloves and leggings or tights . everything else is manageable.

My skin reacts terribly to all petro-chemical based synthetic fibers, including polyester. If I try to wear it, my skin gets incredibly itchy and breaks out in rashes, welts and blisters. If it comes in contact with my sweat, it actually stings and feels like I'm getting a chemical burn.

When someone uses something that filters out microplastics what should they do with the microplastics that have been collected?

Greetings from Bulgaria, Gittemary! Just popping in to say that our whole family loves all your work, and your super positive attitude, and I'd like to say a huge THANK YOU for always creating such quality content that helps so many people re-imagine their day-to-day reality :)))

Just to add on washing bags: I use some since you've mentioned it before and not only it filters most of the micro plastics, it also protects every kind of textile SOOO MUCH!!! Meaning we can keep it longer and as I hate finding new clothes that fit me right, it is another great argument in favour of washing bags. Also completely agree with you on the "buying only what we need" but between comfort or stuff that helps us out even though we don't need it (thinking gadgets that actually helps cooking more healthily when you hate to cook) AND the living constantly in an over consuming society, it is both difficult to determine what is useful to us and how to not yield to temptation, especially when it feels like everyone around is doing it. Especially the young generation who eat and recycle consciously but buy so much of the fast fashion clothing. Loved the video! Impact analysis are my favs (even though I like very much the living alone series). ❤

I feel that when polyester and cotton are compared, organic cotton is almost never used as a third comparison. Using strong pesticides and so forth is cited as one of the main reasons cotton is worse than polyester but what happens when you compare it to organic cotton and take into account that you could, if you don’t mix it with polyester, technically throw it in your compost?

Would love a video on semi-synthetic fabric at some point in the future as well, this was super helpful!

Very useful, informative & well researched

Thank you.

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Loved this impact analysis!!!! I'm inspired to start washing my clothes less and be really mindful about how frequently I throw things in my laundry basket. Saving water, the integrity of my clothes and money on detergent! (Dropps is kind of expensive o.o)

Thanks for this video ❤ really enjoyed it ❤❤❤❤❤

Very informative and great as usual 👏

I hate synthetics! Easily stained, easily pills, falls apart.

These videos are so helpful!🤍

A ex of mine lives in different country dealing with this first hand. They have on 24hour shift on then off. They give vary little safty gear to dye jeans. But only job he can find rate now. I worry this stuff. I gave another friend dealing side-effect of gold.

thanks for this video! these are really useful to link to someone who wants to learn more about fabrics. I'm glad I don't own much polyester clothes, only a few that I got 2nd hand and some sport clothes that have polyester in them. I don't like the feeling of polyester so those few things are the exceptions!

YES love these videos lady!! So interesting and informative and you always make me laugh 😂❤ love from the UK x

I like this video!! Great points!!! I love it

Some of those micro plastic figures are startlingly horrifying

A year ago I give up plastic clothing crazy how much money we pay for Zara banana republic for such a cheap material and toxic I can say banana republic have few good quality item now we need to read ingredients like we do with food before buying clothes 100 % organic cotton , silk pure, linen, cashmere and so on I am buy my clothing and keep it for years so I don’t have to buy more to take care of the planet 🌏

I'd love to watch River Blue, but it seems to be unavailable in my country... However, I watched The true cost and it's an absolute eye-opener, highly recommend!!!

Remember too our pets bedding and clothing (god forbid) is very toxic to them as they lick their fur ingesting the fibres. Causes endocrine damage.

For every second hand item. .I'm gonna ask "what's it made of" and be super disappointed when it has polyester :P

Plastic is almost impossible to avoid at this point

real question, how do you reduce needing to wash polyester? I have some old pieces from very unsustainable places but I find they soak up every smell and need washing frequently to not cause smells in my wardrobe 🤮

Here's a question; how can we find a way to legislate such that manufacturers make dealing with waste products part of the cost of manufacture? Maybe any company that produces or deals with microplastics is responsible for extracting them from the water used and putting them to use in some other product before making new product, until microplastic waste is broken down to the degree that it can easily become it's respective natural components and go back to nature. Maybe the same could be applied to anyone using water to grow cotton, so that water is left drinkable at the end of the process and chemical byproducts become new products until they've been chemically picked back apart to their natural base components and nature can use them again. What if we aren't allowed to make new materials from nature until we've deal with the making process's waste and tried to get what we need from breaking down existing waste products? This sounds inordinately complex, slow, expensive and hard to regulate in a global world, but it starts to show us what true-cost design actually is and compels us to deal with true cost. It feels important to know if could work indefinitely materially speaking, leaving aside all the mass psychological thinking hurdles making it work would involve.

I found a yarn that has a mix of polyester and recycled polyester.

Sports is a huge culprit in in plastic waste. Nearly all sports apparel and equipment is made of plastic.

Do you have recommendations for good filters to use or bags for the washing machine? Many thanks

This is so depressing. 😢 I don't think we can fix this.

Well, learning about the GPGP was a good pre-bedtime activity 😳

Where can I watch the documentaries? 😊

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What kind of thermal will keep me warm in the winter? Most of them are polyester. Wool is too expensive. Cotton, when it gets wet it's cold. Is rayon or acrylic bad too?

Great video, thank you! I've been studying about materials I come across every day, history behind things, like what was there before all this, before plastic took over? And with every piece of knowledge it feels like digging grave, because realizing that our species got so far without relying on plastic everywhere, developed in so interesting ways... and we've been perfectly fine so far! Without shitton of unreliable things that are made by cooking dead dinosaur liquid. I mean, in some ways it was okay discovery. Cool, now we can manipulate one thing into million others. Some qualities of plastic as far as I know are uniquely useful, especially as relatively safe packaging material for medical supplies and in lots of tech & industry related stuff. But wearing it? Why???

This has me wondering if my thread is made of an unsustainable material.