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2. Fast fashion in China - Wikipedia

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   In 2019, China was the leading producer of fast fashion clothing. [1] Many sweatshops are located in China; there, workers are underpaid and overworked in unsafe environments. Overall, China produced 65% of the world's clothing in 2021, [2] with a majority of these clothes being labeled as fast fashion. The top 10 competitors in the fast ...

3. Polyester - Wikipedia

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   A polyester shirt Close-up of a polyester shirt SEM picture of a bend in a high-surface area polyester fiber with a seven-lobed cross section A drop of water on a water resistant polyester Polyesters can contain one ester linkage per repeat unit of the polymer, as in polyhydroxyalkanoates like polylactic acid , or they may have two ester ...

4. Microplastics - Wikipedia

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   Studies have shown that many synthetic fibers, such as polyester, nylon, acrylics, and spandex, can be shed from clothing and persist in the environment. [64] [65] [66] Each garment in a load of laundry can shed more than 1,900 fibers of microplastics, with fleeces releasing the highest percentage of fibers, over 170% more than other garments.

5. Textile - Wikipedia

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   Polyester fibre is used in all types of clothing, either alone or blended with fibres such as cotton. Aramid fibre (e.g. Twaron ) is used for flame-retardant clothing, cut-protection, and armour. Acrylic is a fibre used to imitate wools, [ 104 ] including cashmere, and is often used in replacement of them.

6. Chemical industry - Wikipedia

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   The leading human-made fibers include polyester, nylon, polypropylene, and acrylics, with applications including apparel, home furnishings, and other industrial and consumer use. Principal raw materials for polymers are bulk petrochemicals like ethylene, propylene and benzene.

7. India - Wikipedia

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   India accounts for the bulk of the Indian subcontinent, lying atop the Indian tectonic plate, a part of the Indo-Australian Plate. [170] India's defining geological processes began 75 million years ago when the Indian Plate, then part of the southern supercontinent Gondwana , began a north-eastward drift caused by seafloor spreading to its ...

8. Tartan - Wikipedia

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   From 1797 to 1830, [274] Wilsons were exporting large quantities of tartan (for both men's and women's clothing), first to the British colonies in Grenada and Jamaica (where the affordable, durable, and bright material was popular for clothing enslaved people), [338] and had clients in England, Northern and Central Europe, and a bit later in ...