• Beacon@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    Mandating that everyone in the public can no longer buy the huge variety of clothing styles that can only be achieved with synthetics would cause a giant uproar of opposition and would be almost impossible to get passed into law.

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      Demand changes what is available. My local men’s fashion place now sells Hawaiian shirts made of natural fibres. Cotton underwear has always been available

      Now I can easily get my brightly coloured clothes in reasonable fibres I’ll have nothing that loses micro plastics on me today

      Though I may ride my bike and bike tyres have the same problems as car tyres though they wear much less

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      2 days ago

      Sure, but a gradually increasing tax on the production any plastic containing fabrics would help naturally phase it out.

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        1 day ago

        Plus mandate a filter on clothes washers. I’m sure there would be an entire subculture of reactionaries dedicated to removing them but most people wouldn’t