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Shoutout to the guy at the laundromat who pointed at my pile of faded shirts
He said 'that's the dye from the river, man' and it clicked that all my cheap stuff was polluting every wash. Anyone else have a moment like that, where you saw the waste right in front of you?
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rowan_reed687mo ago
Yeah, seeing the dye in the wash is a real eye-opener. Makes you realize it's all going somewhere.
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thomasgonzalez7mo ago
My blue socks turned my whole load into a sad gray mess last week. It's like a tiny fabric rebellion in every wash cycle. So much for that "color safe" label, right?
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jennifer_jones177mo ago
Ever wonder where all that color ends up after it goes down the drain? It's kind of scary to picture it just... mixing into the water supply. I started noticing it on my white towels and it got me looking into microplastics from clothes too. Makes you feel a bit guilty every time you do a load now.
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the_jake4mo ago
jennifer_jones17 with the "guilty every time you do a load" talk, come on. I mean yeah, dye runs, that's not new. But are we really supposed to feel bad about washing our own clothes now? That river guy at the laundromat sounds like he was messing with you a bit. Unless you're dumping buckets of dye directly into a stream, I doubt one faded shirt is causing some big pollution crisis.
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