It's difficult to find plain old cotton clothes. I've searched on Amazon for 100% cotton t-shirts and the results are often not cotton but polyester mixes. You have to read the description for the actual fabric composition. It's a fault in their algorithms that when you specifically search for cotton or 100% cotton that this other crap shows up. I know they do this to get you to buy something. I NEVER buy clothes or sheets ot towels made of polyester.
2. Microplastics
Furthermore, brands use synthetic fibres like polyester, nylon and acrylic which take hundreds of years to biodegrade. A 2017 report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimated that 35% of all microplastics – tiny pieces of non-biodegradable plastic – found in the ocean come from the laundering of synthetic textiles like polyester.
According to 2015 documentary The True Cost, the world consumes around 80 billion new pieces of clothing every year, 400% more than the consumption twenty years ago. The average American now generates 82 pounds of textile waste each year. The production of leather requires large amounts of feed, land, water and fossil fuels to raise livestock, while the tanning process is among the most toxic in all of the fashion supply chain because the chemicals used to tan leather- including mineral salts, formaldehyde, coal-tar derivatives and various oils and dyes- is not biodegradable and contaminates water sources.
Fast Fashion and Its Environmental Impact in 2025 | Earth.Org
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