So many clothes are made from artificial plastic-derivative fibres. Whatever we do with them will have been, and will continue, in the wearing, the washing and disposal to have micro-bits sloughing off and going where? - Everywhere and anywhere. I understood that many discarded cardies along with other wearables are sorted and cleaned for charitable resale purposes, or that a private firm dealing in used clothes will make a profit in sending usable clothes abroad while donating an amount to a charity. Useless unwearable cloth is shredded for stuffing purposes we are led to learn. Meanwhile, as said, in whatever is done with the cloth of clothes relentlessly releases micro-fibres everywhere. The meat, fish and veg we eat are likely graced with a delicious soupçon of plastic as is a cool 'clear' gulp of sparkling water we imbibe so readily by a summertime's holiday pool. Our own bodies could possibly have embedded inside us a plastic fibre or two or more that was once woven into the trousseau of a pretty young thing. And, of the oceans 'plastic water everywhere and not a drop to drink...' Apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Bobbie Carnegie ● 2453d