Communicator: Volume 46 Edition 4

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Fashion

Photography by Ebba Gurney | Polyester, nylon, acrylic and other synthetic fibers — all of which are forms of plastic — are about 60% of the material that makes up our clothes worldwide. According to the Wall Street Journal, everytime these clothes are washed, they shed microfibers into the ocean, the equivalent of 50 billion plastic water bottles.

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