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Laundry is a top source of microplastic pollution—here's how to clean your clothes more sustainably (theconversation.com)

submitted 10 months ago by GreyShuck@feddit.uk to c/green@lemmy.ml

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The most common microplastics in the environment are microfibers—plastic fragments shaped like tiny threads or filaments. Microfibers come from many sources, including cigarette butts, fishing nets and ropes, but the biggest source is synthetic fabrics, which constantly shed them.

Textiles shed microfibers while they are manufactured, worn and disposed of, but especially when they are washed. A single wash load can release several million microfibers. Many factors affect how many fibers are released, including fabric type, mechanical action, detergents, temperature and the duration of the wash cycle.

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[–] ShoeboxKiller@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow, you like being wrong huh? A circle is defined in mathematics as a type of line which is composed of infinite number of points that are equidistant from a given point.

[–] Lemonparty@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Omg not semantics, anything but semantics

[–] ShoeboxKiller@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pedantics, actually. Much like this comment. Semantics would be applicable if you weren’t trying to be superior by dropping a single ambiguous sentence.

Since you left the meaning of your comment ambiguous I interpreted it as your lack of understanding what the mathematical definition of a circle is.

Based on the comment thread it seems like you need all the help you can get. I hope you find it!

[–] Lemonparty@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I interpreted it as a lack of understanding.

You applied a mathematical definition to a common lingual term, which was used in the exact same fashion in the response as your original use. That's using semantics, as you're arguing about the lingual definition as it applies to a phrase.

The pedantic part is you using a semantic argument just to be a cunty little shit head on the internet.

[–] ShoeboxKiller@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.