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Normal use also abrades fabrics, the point is normal use doesn’t collect these damaged fibers so they all just end up in the environment.


They end up in the environment regardless. Where do you put your lint trap material? where does the dryer vent to?


If you want to be that pedantic the clothes you’re using right now are already part of the environment as are clothes sitting in stores etc.

However, using the common terminology a sealed garbage dump isn’t part of the environment in question because sea life isn’t coming into contact with it.




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