#synthetic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #synthetic, aggregated by home.social.
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https://theconversation.com/decarbonising-everything-is-impossible-heres-why-280677. "Roughly 15-20% of all #fossilfuel #consumption is never burned at all. It is transformed into the #physical #fabric of #modern #life: #plastics, #polymers, #fertilisers, #adhesives, #solvents & #synthetic #textiles... The #chemical #industry is the upstream #engine of many modern #materials, using about 14% of global #oil #demand & 8% of global #gas demand. Much of that is used as a raw #material rather than #fuel."
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Better yet, wear clothes made of shorn #wool, #hemp, #bamboo, #flax, or #OrganicCotton.
How do you tackle #microplastics? Start with your washing machine.
Simple filters could help remove #microfiber pollution from your #laundry. But experts say a broader portfolio of solutions is needed to address the problem.by Saqib Rahim, Apr 19, 2023
"As environmental challenges go, microfiber pollution has come from practically out of nowhere. It was only a decade or so ago that scientists first suspected our #clothing, increasingly made of #synthetic materials like #polyester and #nylon, might be major contributors to the global #plastic problem."Today a growing body of science suggests the tiny strands that slough off #clothes are everywhere and in everything. By one estimate, they account for as much as one-third of all microplastics released to the ocean. They’ve been found on #MountEverest and in the #MarianaTrench, along with tap #water, #plankton, shrimp guts, and our poo."
#WaterIsLife #Pollution #NaturalFibers #MakeClothesThatLast #SayNoToFastFashion #Underconsumption #UnderconsumptionCore
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Big Chemistry: Synthetic Oil - For as long as I’ve been driving, I’ve been changing oil. Longer than that, actual... - https://hackaday.com/2022/05/02/big-chemistry-synthetic-oil/ #hackadaycolumns #chemistryhacks #lubrication #lubricant #synthetic #motoroil #mineral #polymer #oil