microplastics

Fast fashion's footprint comes mostly from making and discarding clothes, not wearing them. This article sorts the well-supported numbers on water, carbon, microplastics, and waste from the disputed ones, and shows which responses have evidence behind them.

We produce 400 million tonnes of plastic per year. Most ends up in landfills, in the ocean, or as microplastics in our food. Here's the science of plastic pollution and what's actually being done.