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🗓️ 11 March 2021
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Everyone has a favorite pair of blue jeans. Denim jeans are the world’s favorite pants. But did you know that every pair of jeans is full of microplastics? In this segment, I explain the history of denim jeans and why they’re so popular, especially here in America. I also break down some studies on microplastics and what they’re doing to marine life. Look, I know you love your jeans. But there are better options that don’t come with the detriment of our environment.
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0:00.0 | It's that time of the week for another fatal convenience. |
0:06.1 | This is a bite-sized segment that addresses some of society's fatal conveniences, and |
0:12.0 | the steps you can take to avoid becoming a victim of them. |
0:16.7 | I define fatal conveniences as the things we may be doing because the world we live in |
0:23.1 | makes us believe we have to. |
0:26.3 | Water, shampoo, sunglasses, food, I dive into the hidden truths behind some of our everyday |
0:33.0 | choices that could not only be harming us, but even killing us. |
0:38.8 | So let's dive in. |
0:40.1 | Hey everybody, welcome to the show, another installment of fatal conveniences. |
0:48.4 | If you don't want to be inconvenienced by this one, turn off the podcast now. |
0:54.2 | It's like once you're aware of something, you can't be unaware. |
0:59.0 | So I'm warning you now, these are probably going to be affecting your favorite pair of pants, |
1:07.5 | your favorite jeans. |
1:09.6 | This fatal convenience is on microplastics and jeans, okay, the blue jeans, the denim, |
1:16.3 | all of that stuff, but there's good options, there's good opportunity to change. |
1:21.6 | There's some things you can do, but here we go. |
1:25.5 | So listen, so blue jeans are the most worn pair of pants on the planet. |
1:33.4 | Listen, we all love that perfect fitting pair of jeans, and we wash them, but we don't |
1:41.0 | realize, and I'm going to get into this a little deeper on average, 56,000 micro fibers |
1:48.2 | are released with every wash. |
1:51.2 | These are strands of organic or synthetic material, along with thousands and thousands |
1:58.9 | of microplastics, tiny minuscule pieces of plastic that end up, where do they end up, |
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