Cardboard Hangers

The textile/fashion industry has generated about 380 million metric tons of plastic—more than other individual sectors such as electronics or consumer and industrial products or building and construction . . . Plastic goes into polyester, which is used to make leggings, athletic wear and other garments. It is in polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, which gives clothes and accessories a glossy finish. And it goes into hangers, shopping bags, bubble wrap and other packaging material. Clothes made with plastic can take decades to decompose and the tiny fibers, or microplastics, they shed during laundering can end up polluting water streams.

WSJ

Fashions change with lightning speed,

but there's always plastic bead

in your dress or shirt or shoes --

which into the oceans ooze;

winding up in fishy gut,

or so says the scuttlebutt.

Plastic hangers for our clothes

in the landfill quickly goes.

Bubble wrap, while fun to pop,

sows pollution as a crop.

Paper suits and fig leaves must

now become our faddish thrust.