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  Thrifty Dan on 31/07/2023 - 11:34

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  100% Recycled polyester…. You get similar options when Icebreaker has their best clearances on for merino. Better wait or stink in polyester!

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    Arch9896 on 31/07/2023 - 11:50

    +1

    Is it common to have holes in all of my Merino clothes?

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      Thrifty Dan on 31/07/2023 - 11:57

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      If you hang them outside for drying and moths are around, it’s possible. Also if you wash your merino with bras from the missus it can happen.

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      Indomietable on 31/07/2023 - 14:34

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      How else do you put your head and arms into it?

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  Aureus on 31/07/2023 - 11:42

  -3

  Recycled polyester is some crazy greenwashing.

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    dtpearson on 31/07/2023 - 13:21

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    Honest question, why is it greenwashing? If used plastic bottles gets recycled into polyester clothing, isn't that better than the single use bottles going immediately into landfill? Obviously biodegradable source materials would be better beginning to end that is obvious, but if the plastic already exists and would otherwise go into landfill isn't it better to be recycled?

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      Aureus on 31/07/2023 - 14:08

      Because polyester is bad for the environment and making it from recycled products doesn't make it green.

      Greenwashing, also called "green sheen", is a form of advertising or marketing spin in which green PR and green marketing are deceptively used to persuade the public that an organization's products, aims and policies are environmentally friendly.

      They are spending a couple of cents extra to buy polyester from recycled plastic so they can spin the product as green, when they could just not sell polyester if they actually cared about being green.

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        Stivo on 31/07/2023 - 15:31

        Why is polyester "bad" for the environment? Is it worse then cotton, or any other material? I thought polyester had the lowest CO2 impact.

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          Aureus on 31/07/2023 - 15:52

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          @Stivo: Polyester releases a lot of microplastics. They are released in to the air just by wearing polyester cloths and are breathed in and also get in to waterways. Also they release a bunch of microplastics when you wash them.

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            Stivo on 01/08/2023 - 13:39

            @Aureus: Sounds like your conflating a garbage issue with an environmental issue.

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              Aureus on 01/08/2023 - 16:29

              @Stivo: Huh? Microplastics is a huge environmental issue, thus you can't have "green" polyester. Maybe I am just not following what you are saying.

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                Stivo on 03/08/2023 - 11:49

                @Aureus: Your issue is with the garbage it creates. Polyester is not a toxic product (even if its ingested) so how is it bad for the environment? In fact, arguably any other clothing material will have a bigger impact on the environment as all other clothing materials create more CO2.

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                  Aureus on 03/08/2023 - 12:01

                  @Stivo: Microplastics are toxic. Just google it.

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                    Stivo on 03/08/2023 - 14:03

                    @Aureus: Polyester microplastics are not toxic.

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                      Aureus on 03/08/2023 - 14:25

                      @Stivo: Don't know where you are getting that from.
                      https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/20/microfib…

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                        Stivo on 03/08/2023 - 15:45

                        @Aureus: I read the whole thing and its misinformation. Yes, they found microplastic in lots of animals, but no explanation why or how its toxic. These animals were all living a normal life when they were harvested. Even the linked study says nothing about it being toxic. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep14340 They just made the bit about it being toxic up without any source.

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                          Aureus on 03/08/2023 - 16:23

                          @Stivo: https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_…

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  Nkbargin on 01/08/2023 - 10:20

  Deal expired i was trying to decide if i really needed and now too late missed out.