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Re:Tons of microplastic rain onto western US by techntoke on Friday June 26, 2020 @11:13PM (#23659227)
Rayon is still incredibly toxic to produce because of the process.
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Re:Tons of microplastic rain onto western US by kortex on Saturday June 27, 2020 @12:06AM (#23659442)
How so? Carbon disulfide is rather nasty, but it's straightforward to recover most of it. TLV is 10 ppm, while the effluent air from Teepak is 100 ppm [0], meaning you could spend hours a day with just over a 10:1 dilution of the factory exhaust. And there are lots of efforts to get those emissions way lower.

If it means less microplastics, I'm all for it.

[0] https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5518183

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Re:Tons of microplastic rain onto western US by joveian on Saturday June 27, 2020 @03:03PM (#23663859)
Tencel brand is a closed-loop version of the lyocell rayon process.
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