Fleece clothing a "serious pollutant"—it's made of plastic, after all

Most 'fleece' is just extruded plastic filament and its use in clothing is, according to clothing company Patagonia, a serious source of pollution. Washing them results in microplastic soup, which then heads into the sewers and hence to the seas.

During laundering, a single fleece jacket sheds as many as 250,000 synthetic fibers—significantly more than the 1,900 fibers Browne first recorded.

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