- A New Zealand fashion designer wants big brands to ditch synthetic clothing
- Emily Cooper who runs Silkbody says the fibres in the clothes pollutes oceans
- Instead, she wants big clothing brands to use natural fibres such silk in their line
Fibres from synthetic clothing are ending up in fish and tap water, a scientist has warned.
Emily Cooper, a fashion designer and textile scientist, has warned that synthetic clothing is a bigger polluter of the ocean than plastic bags.
The New Zealand designer said new studies confirmed that fibres from synthetics were harmful and urged for brands to stop using the material, Ragtrader reports.
Emily Cooper is a New Zealand fashion designer and textile scientist (pictured)
However, she did not name the study or where the findings were derived from.
Ms Cooper who has run her own fashion label Silkbody since 2002, explained that synthetics clothes released a lot of deadly fibres once washed.
She said ‘water treatments’ were unable to dilute these fibres forcing it to end up in the ocean and eventually turned into a food source for marine life which is in-evidently consume by the masses.
Ms Cooper said the process also contaminants tap water.
She suggests companies follow in her footsteps and start using natural fibres such as silk in their clothing line.
‘It’s time consumers rediscovered the benefits of natural fibres,’ Ms Cooper said.
‘Silk is as robust as any ‘technical’ synthetic.
‘Let’s return to the original inspiration behind this failed experiment and do the earth and ourselves a favour,’ she told the publication.
She wants brands to stop using synthetic clothes which released deadly substance to the sea