Question
Are all types of clothes biodegradable?
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Answer
- Not all fabrics are safely biodegradable as they are made with artificial and chemical components.
- It depends on what fibres or fabric is made from.
- And also the more chemicals used the longer it takes to biodegrade.
- Polyester has been introduced since 1951 created not by the textile industry but by American Chemical Company Dupont went on sale.
- Polyester is a polymer or a long chain of repeating molecular units.
- That basically means that our clothes are increasingly made of plastic.
- In theory cotton, silk hemp is biodegradable and polyester is not.
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