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“Cleanup of existing toxic waste facilities remains one of the largest and most difficult tasks for the EPA. The nation’s biggest and most technically complex properties affected by toxic waste are prioritized on the National Priorities List to reverse, minimize, or prevent environmental disasters related to toxic waste. These include private and federal properties many of which have been abandoned by their owners.”

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“The Superfund was created to fund these complicated and expensive cleanup activities. EPA provides outreach and educational activities for communities surrounding the toxic waste sites to raise awareness of risks, prevention and avoidance strategies, and to promote direct involvement in cleanup activities.”

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“Cotton, linen, and wool are all the product of generations of selective breeding, intensive farming, and in many cases industrial and chemical processing; yet plant- and animal-derived fibers are objectively different from synthetics, significantly because of the ability of plant and animal fibers to be broken down by micro-organisms, light, air, or water, and the nomenclature of “natural fibers” is used in our argument.”

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“Furthermore, the effects are changing the immediate biophysical environment of rivers and seas and are leaving an impression upon geology that may be present in the Earth's record alongside other markers of past and future epochs. The depositing of man-made microfibers, plastics, and pollutants in sediments has the potential to leave a permanent mark in the geologic record. This could in the future become what geologists refer to as an epoch-defining “golden spike”: a specific event marked in rock, sediment, or glacier ice that denotes the onset of the Anthropocene.”

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“With the rise in production in the fashion industry, demand for man-made fibers, especially polyester, has nearly doubled in the last 15 years, according to figures from the Technical Textile Markets. The manufacture of polyester and other synthetic fabrics is an energy intensive process requiring large amounts of crude oil and releasing emissions including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, and acid gases such as hydrogen chloride, all of which can cause or aggravate respiratory disease.”

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“Cotton, one of the most popular and versatile fibers used in clothing manufacture, also has a significant environmental footprint. This crop accounts for a quarter of all the pesticides used in the United States, the largest exporter of cotton in the world, according to the USDA.”

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These two quotes discuss how toxic waste affects the environment negatively and how the man-made plastics pollute the earth. The EPA is continuously trying to prevent man-made microfibers, plastics, and pollutants from getting into the environment.

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These two quotes discuss how cotton is used in clothing manufacture and how it is one of the biggest products affecting the environment. It accounts for all the pesticides used and how it is a product of generations of selective breeding and intensive farming.

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“The sub-contracting from employer or manufacturer to middleman “sweater” is still prevalent. In an interview with the New York Times. Robert B. Reich, Us Secretary of Labor under the Clinton administration, described the problems inherent in “networks of contractors and specialized subcontractors” which exist as part of the “the garment ‘food chain’”

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We can make a connection between these two posts because the garment food chain affects the environment by using pesticides in cotton farming. The quote from Robert G discusses that the EPA provides cleanup activities which can help reduce the use of pesticides in cotton farming.

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“Cotton, dust, or lint, was a serious problem in mills. It covered the floors and filled the air, and its inhalation could cause mild to severe respiratory problems in mills”

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These two quotes tie together by discussing how cotton was a severe issue in the industry and how it affected the environment.