And mine is too. Maybe I was born in a barn but I didn’t realize that synthetic fleece is largely made from recycled pop bottles. I guess I just didn’t give it any mind.
According to Canadian Geographic, a recent study from the Norwegian Institute for Air Research and the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research revealed that fleece and Gore-Tex clothing is the largest contributor to over 100 million particles of microplastic ending up in the fiord at Longyearbyen, a community of 2,000 on the island of Svalbard.