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Accounting on silk for reducing microplastic pollution from textile sector: a viewpoint
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This viewpoint paper argues that switching from synthetic to natural silk fibers in the textile industry could significantly reduce microplastic pollution, since synthetic fibers shed microplastics during washing. Silk is biodegradable and does not produce persistent microplastic fragments. The authors call for greater use of natural fibers as part of a broader strategy to reduce textile-derived microplastics.
Microplastic pollution is the emerging issue in the recent past and has been identified in the remotely located ecosystems. The textile sector is one of the key contributors in the microplastic pollution. Keeping this in view, the present viewpoint has been planned to address the systematic possible reduction of microplastic pollution. It has been observed through the literature that silk is having a promising material to reduce the microplastic problems and its associated environmental risk due to its non-persistent nature.
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