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Emergency Medical Technician at Mendoza Soldier Family Care Center

Even though for our final report of comparing the lifecycle of making a 100% cotton t-shirt in the US vs China, we didn’t consider the use phase there were a lot of eye-opening facts and information. Researching the lifecycle of a t-shirt overall these following facts are the ones that I found surprising. The first is that 35% of microplastics in the world’s ocean comes from textiles which is 69.7 million tons of microplastics. Another is that roughly 60-70% of all clothing is made from synthetic material and with the average consumer is buying 2x the amount of clothing than they use to in the 2010’s. Not only that consumers are keeping clothing half the amount of time that they use to. The last piece of information is that households generate 77& of the release of microplastics during the use phase.

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