Are toxic chemicals in our clothing damaging to our health?...
Ros mentioned this issue within a lecture and it really intrigued me, as personally I hadn't even realised that this was a possibility. So I had a little read up about it...
The clothes we wear contain NPE's (nonylphenol ethoxylates), which technically are banned in Europe. When you wash your garments in water these NPE's break down in to NP (nonylphenol) and are creeping into and poisoning our waterways. NP is a toxic and hormone disrupting substance, let alone extremely harmful to animals. 52 out of 78 garments sold in the UK tested positive. There are other alcohol ethoxylates available that companies can use, however they don't, as this is more expensive. Traces have already been found in human breast milk blood and urine, its slowly working its way inside of us!
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