Brittle plastic

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 at 11:02, Stefan Skoglund via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Textilmuseet (textiles and clothes museum in Borås, Sweden) have a
> number of items which was haute couture in the 70s and 80s. Some of
> them was done in a plastic which today is basically an awful mess...
>
> And so they are basically forced to thwrow away items which cost them a
> fair bit to buy.

:-o

I did not know it affected fabrics, too, but I guess it makes sense.
That's awful.

Perhaps the problems of accumulating microplastics in the biosphere
will resolve itself sooner than expected...

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