So... Cotton/Linen/Wool? The technology is fine, its only downside in most applications is simply cost. Cotton clothes are more comfortable, less stinky, less polluting, and won't fuse with your skin and disfigure you for life if they accidentally catch on fire. On top of not making microplastics soup every wash cycle.

If we cared to actually solve the problem of plastics in fast fashion we could ban them, with some exceptions for sportswear and shoes where synthetics have some actually useful uses. Hell, we could even make it an easy transition by gradually pulling back the allowable synthetic content for x years.

But it would directly kneecap Shein and H&M's business model so we have to weigh all the pros against that.

Yes, this is how I understand it too, it's not like half of your shirt ends up in the ocean (and the amount of plastics that ends up in the landfills isn't really included in the microplastics that circle around - that's a problem for the future - so the vomit-inducing fast fashion/consumerism is a bigger problem from every other standpoint).

And yes again on the only viable solution - it's stupid to try to slightly improve something you are gonna be producing more of every year. The "improvements" are just propaganda we are (successfully) fed for decades & it just muddies the discussions whilst keeping the current/same profiteers in power (without even changing the business model).

I think I have to give linen a second chance. Or maybe modal/lycocell/etc. Germany isn't sub Saharan warm, but I'm built like an oven 😐

Edit: oh, this is why I gave up on them. I'm not paying 85€ for a single shirt 🫩

Right now I'm wearing a wool shirt under a linen shirt. I'd count the local weather as "warm"

The fact that some paper straws perform as well as plastic suggests that the bad ones are just cheaper and are used by companies that don't care. When I used to drink the sort of drinks that use straws I carried a steel straw to use in places that didn't supply good straws

I have never heard of this, but I will have a look. Thanks for the suggestion.

This is a really good point. Most of my synthetics clothes have been made of a rayon blend, so maybe they were not so bad after all.

This would be an excellent point to clarify.

And I can't stand how it feels. Cotton feels sweaty all the time and wool is just too warm. I'm starting to wear sweaters when temperatures hit single digits (Celsius) and jackets when below zero. I'm not made for warm and friendly. I need breathable. Cotton sucks here.

some people are allergic to cotton, because of lanolin produced by sheep that is aprt of the wool, people are allergic to it.

Uh.. Cotton is not wool.

Yes? And?

Latex is a natural substance that comes from trees and can be used as a feed stock to make certain kinds of rubber.