Your clothes are shedding bits of plastic. Heres what people are doing about it this Earth Day [Video]

Canadian Environment and Climate

Post author By Curator
Post date April 23, 2025

Rachael Z. Miller, founder of the Vermont-based Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean, conducts a tape test on various clothing items to compare how much each material sheds microfibers on Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Granville, Vt.

Amanda Swinhart/AP

By Jennifer Mcdermott The Associated Press

Bottles and bags, food wrappers and straws. Piping, packaging, toys and trays. Plastic is everywhere — and yet some people may be surprised at how much they actually wear.

A typical closet is loaded with plastic, woven into polyester activewear, acrylic sweaters, nylon swimsuits and stretchy socks — and it’s shedding into the environment nonstop.