The problem within our Clothes _____________________________________ Image source: The story of stuff project It’s a widely known truth that most of the plastic products that we consume today end up in our water bodies. In the era of washing machines, much little is known or paid attention to about the problems created due to it. That our clothes are one of the major contributors to the plastic problem is not known to all and in this blog, I share some facts on the microfibers that come out of our clothes every time we wash and what can we do at an individual level to reduce the impact. ******** Plastic pollution is a major global phenomenon that has overshadowed every other problem humans have ever seen. With our lackadaisical approach towards usage of plastic and waste management, plastic waste travels long distances across oceans, land and is omnipresent today from the polar to the equator. A less spoken thing, microplastics are spreading like a pla