Cutting rooms dwarf laundering on microfibre loss

TIRUPUR – Cutting rooms may be a far bigger source of microfibre pollution than household laundry, suggests a new peer-reviewed study from India.

The authors directly measured fallout during routine garment production. They report that “cutting a medium-sized T-shirt can release up to 1.09 × 10^6 microfibers,” which they calculate is “approximately 50 times higher than that released during laundry.”