There are a lot of times I feel like just…flipping the vegan script.
It’s not ‘polyester’ it’s plastic
It’s not ‘vegan leather’ it’s plastic
Its not ‘faux fur’ it’s plastic
Plastic is a pollutant and causes far more damage to the environment both now and in the future than leather or wool.
Please stop telling me that the Plastic Lyfe is the only life, it is not. My leather shoes will last a decade where pleather is lucky to last 12 months. Leather (and wool) decompose and are renewable. Plastic is neither of those.
THANK YOUUUUUUU~
A single wash cycle of plastic-based fiber (polyester, poly fleece, faux fur) may release 700,000 pieces of microplastic into our waters. Nasty stuff.
aw dangit
Wool is the most environmentally friendly fabric despite being an animal product.
Using wool isnt even harming sheep
Vegans who don’t want to harm the environment should be wearing cotton, bamboo, and hemp. All three are veggie-sourced fibres and in the case of hemp, less damaging when grown in intensive farming.
I’m not certain about the environmental impact of rubber, though. You can source rubber from latex trees, but that just isn’t done since the petrochemical industries found a way to make it out of environmentally damaging oil. So it’s either make your own or go back to clogs.
That, or the Japanese wooden sandals. Or weave your own soles out of reeds. That’d be a cool look.
hashtag endplasticlife
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