This is followed by clothes washing to remove toxic chemicals. Washing clothes releases 500,000 tons of microfibers into the ocean each year which is the equivalent of 50 billion plastic bottles! Textile dyeing is the world’s second-largest polluter of water as leftover from the dyeing process is often dumped into ditches, streams, or rivers.
The fashion industry is also the second-largest consumer of water worldwide, requiring 700 gallons of water to produce one cotton shirt! This is an unacceptable figure especially when 780 million people worldwide don’t have access to an improved water source.
Additionally, the fashion industry is responsible for 10% of humanity’s carbon emissions and that figure equals more than the emissions caused by all international flights, and maritime shipping, combined!
Op-Ed: Skeptics & Naysayers Launch Last-Ditch Efforts To Discredit EVs
Jan 15, 2021 at 9:39am ET ++ As long as there have been EVs, there have been anti-EV hit pieces in the media.
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EVANNEX on January 15, 2021 by Charles Morris
No, they aren’t all financed by fossil fuel interests (ironically, the trade magazine OilPrice.com often publishes objective news about Tesla and the threat that EVs pose to the oil industry). Some are penned by old-school auto industry types, some by stock market short-sellers, and some by individuals who simply dislike EVs f