Addressing the Impacts of Microfiber Pollution
What’s covered
What is the extent and impact of microfiber pollution? What scalable solutions can effectively address its environmental and health risks?
Microfibers shed from textiles are polluting ecosystems and posing risks to human health. These tiny fibers travel through water, air, and soil, carrying a myriad of chemicals with them. In ecosystems around the world, microfiber pollution is contaminating waterways and entering the food chain, threatening both wildlife and human health.
This session will explore the extent and impact of microfiber pollution, focusing on fiber shedding from textiles, its long-term environmental consequences, and the major questions that remain unanswered. We’ll discuss actionable solutions to design products that reduce microfiber release throughout their lifecycle, technologies to reduce microfiber pollution from textile manufacturing, and how to scale downstream solutions to address existing pollution.