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Today in Focus

Could your clothes be making you sick? | Podcast

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.6 β€’ 5.9K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Stain-resistant, wrinkle-proof, hard-wearing – modern clothing can cope with anything. But we know little about the chemicals that go into making it so impressive – or what they could be doing to our health. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:09.5

Today are your clothes making you sick.

0:21.1

The Guardian Labs has partnered with Who Gives A Crap to help you uncrap the world,

0:25.9

starting in your bathroom.

0:28.0

Every day, more than one million trees are cut down to make traditional toilet paper.

0:33.0

Huge tracks of our forests are being wiped out, just so we can wipe our bums.

0:38.4

Total crap, isn't it?

0:40.5

That's why the planet needs you to sit down for what you believe in,

0:44.4

by switching to recycled or bamboo roll today.

0:48.0

This message was paid for by Who Gives A Crap?

0:58.3

I love my job. I was good at it.

1:03.4

Tanya Osborne worked as a flight attendant for 25 years.

1:08.1

The passengers liked me and for most part I liked most of them.

1:11.6

There were days that she didn't.

1:14.3

It was a hard job some days, but for the most part it was a great job.

1:21.9

For most of her career, flying domestic routes across the United States,

1:26.7

she, Antocodics, dressed in relaxed carcass shorts, white shirts and trainers.

1:32.1

It was a very casual, very laid back.

1:34.8

We didn't have dresses or heels or anything like that.

1:38.9

But in 2017, the airline switched to a new uniform, produced by a different supplier.

1:46.0

We were excited, we were starting to look more professional and everybody thought

1:50.8

the passengers would have more respect for us.

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