It is estimated that 60 percent of clothes worldwide are made of synthetic fibers. When thrown into the washing machine, these fibers transform into microplastics that pass through our water supplies and get released into the ocean. As someone who is interested in the field of environmental protection, this issue is particularly concerning. Though the exact amount of pollution caused by our wardrobes is still unknown as it is hard to measure, we can estimate that around 35 percent of the microplastics found in the ocean come from our synthetic clothes. Not only do they take hundreds of years…