Polyester
topic on 2 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes
4 statements about Polyester, every show
Peters: Polyester fabrics leach inhalable nanoplastics during movement
“Polyester, these things, they basically leech, you know, nanoplastics that literally get inhaled as you know, move the fabric.”
Polyester can be chemically unpolymerized and repolymerized almost infinitely
“Whenever you have a chemical engineering process, you always have a little bit of loss from just material handling and things like that, but the polyester can get repolymerized and unpolymerized, you know, back and forth, essentially infinitely.”
Liedtke: 60% to 70% of modern fashion is made from polyester
“In the fashion space you've got, you know, arguably 60 to 70% depending on what brand and what Performance features you're looking for are made out of polyester, which is a form of plastic”