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Outdoor clothing brands still using ‘forever chemicals’ despite health risk
(www.theguardian.com)
Ok but which companies?
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2024
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Probably all of them. The chemicals are very useful for waterproofing.
Did you read the article?
Páramo and Finisterre use no PFAS in their products, while Fjällräven, Alpkit, Lowe Alpine and Patagonia are mostly PFAS free. They and more than a dozen other firms say they will end their PFAS use next year.
let's just ban them and make have a mechanism in place to avoid another switcheroo to another "not yet proven harmful" class of chemicals. I'm sure they'll come up with something better eventually. I don't want to have to shop around endlessly to not wear poison.
It's crazy they haven't banned them. 3M's forever chemicals are in every living thing on the planet, literally. Even if you never went near one of their factories or anything they produced, it's in you.
At first they knew it got into the blood of all living things. Now we have tests proving links to cancer, immunodeficiencies, obesity, and other health effects, but still no ban. Babies are born with forever chemicals in them - in fact babies drastically reduce the traces of the chemicals in their mothers because they absorb it during gestation. Farms have tested their horses and live stock, every. living. thing. Crazy.
Did you accidentally post this in the wrong community? There is /c/clothing@slrpnk.net for example.
I think its collapse-y as the idea that companies know full well the danger of these chemicals, yet they still sell them in their products perfectly characterizes why were in the situation we are currently.
That said I had no idea the clothing community existed and I like putting the spotlight on more niche communities so in the future I'll post relevant stuff there instead.