| ▲ | maxglute 18 hours ago |
| Typical shit Cotton: About ~1500 litres if you exclude rain. Polyester~30 litres (inclusive entire extraction chain). Another way to put it: Cotton: 750 almonds Polyester: 15 almonds 5-250 California almonds |
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| ▲ | ThrowawayTestr 17 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I'd rather have a good cotton shirt than a bag of almonds. |
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| ▲ | maxglute 17 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm not knocking on consumer choice. I'd rather have 5 high performance synesthetic petchem shirt summoned from fossil than a nice cotton shirt that emits more and sheds more microplastic. More to point out how stupid agriculture water use can be. Also golf courses. | | |
| ▲ | GuestFAUniverse 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | What microplastic is in pure cotton?
My best shirts lasted two decades.
100% cotton. Not mixed fabric or even elastan. How much water gets contaminated forever with microplastic due to the BS mixed fabric hype? |
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| ▲ | dahrkael 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| so now plastic is the greener choice? what a time to be alive |
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| ▲ | maxglute 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think tstill more emissions per shirt, more microplastics, but in terms of water use, more green. |
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