Wwweelllwwelll. We don’t think you can make so straightforward conclusions. Our underwear are made of recycled, or more exactly regenerated, polyamides.Every time plastic garbage is discussed, microplastics are brought up. Microplastics are released from textiles made of synthetic fibres such as polyester, fleece or acryl. Fleece is the biggest baddie of synthetic fibres, since the upright brushed fibres are so weak and thin that whenever you wash them up to 200 000 microplastic particles smaller than five millimetres are released.The share of microplastic of world’s oceans’ plastic waste is about 10 percent. According to research by the Finnish Environment Institute, about 99% of the microplastics that are released when products made of synthetic fibres are washed, are purified in the waste water purification plants such that they don’t end up in the waterways.When we examined our own role as a microplastics badass, we learned that there are washing bags whose aim is to prevent microplastics from ending up in the waterways while washed. As a funny curiosity, the washing bags are made of the same material as our underwear. It’s a little like having two condoms on top of each other.And let us add that cotton has its own share of problems too, even if it is labelled organic. Over 10 000 litres of water per one kilogram of cotton is just not sustainable, since in those places where cotton is grown water is also needed for food production.