[_huayra_]

Another easy thing to do is to prefer clothes with natural fiber types (cotton, wool, etc). A lot of the particulates in one's home are generated from just the abrasion of your clothing as you move around. When those are natural particulates instead of synthetic, you'll end up inhaling a lot less.

Related is improving airflow and vacuuming regularly so that these particles don't accumulate as much.

[jwagenet]

Note that there are other environmental trade-offs to be made. Cotton is know for requiring tons of pesticides. Wool production also often involves pesticides and neuro-toxic dyes. In Let My People Go Surfing Yvon Chouinard claims using “every acre of land from Maine to the Mississippi” for sheep would be required to replace one synthetic wool yarn mill (pg102, 2016 ed). I’d be interested in finding corroboration of this, but regardless it’s made me rethink trying to go mostly natural textiles. Not to mention, for outdoor activewear, synthetics are almost always superior.

I think the real solution is to try to buy less clothing, reuse old clothing, use clothing longer, and reduce consumption from the worst offenders: fast fashion. Yes, you are still exposing yourself to plastics in your own home, but my impression is industrial production is by far the largest producer of microplastics.

[tdb7893]

There are lots of indoor air filters that would likely also help. They also help with things like indoor pollution generally.

[t0bia_s]

Also they increase plastic production to manufacturing them.

[ablob]

Funny enough, banning cotton is being considered in europe at the moment.

[layer8]

This is incorrect: https://www.nzz.ch/international/baumwoll-verbot-eu-dementie...

[Luc]

True in the most trivial sense, but no, not really.

Eating cotton for breakfast is being considered on HN at the moment.

[ce4]

Src please

[kedarkhand]

wait why?