Green Your Closet

Who knew that the contents of your wardrobe creates massive environmental issues? Here is an article from the Sierra Club magazine that offers some startling statistics: the apparel industry is responsible for about 8 percent of carbon emissions and more than a third of the primary microplastic pollution", "the vast majority of shoes end up in landfills, where they leach plasticizers and heavy metals", and "of the 1.5 million tons of primary microplastics contaminating oceans each year, about 35 percent originate in synthetic clothes". The article offers suggestions about how to reduce your clothing food print: look for certain types of rayon, choose organic clothing, buy shoes that can be resoled or donate them, and use a microplastic catching laundry bag or a Filtrol, a microplastic-filter attachment for your washing machine.