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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Kate Cray

Before you throw out all the synthetic fabrics in your closet, read this

an illustration showing various colored and patterned fabric scraps
Over the past few years, a heightened awareness of fabric content has spread among shoppers. Composite: Rita Liu/The Guardian/Getty Images

A few months ago, Lane Koch made a decision: she would purge her family’s closets of all plastic-based fabrics and replace them with natural fibers, such as cotton and linen.

Koch, a longtime Republican political strategist who was a senior staffer on Robert F Kennedy Jr’s presidential campaign, has long avoided processed foods and rid her kitchen of plastic cookware about a decade ago. But, for all that she cared about what she put in her body, she told me she had paid little attention to what she put on her body.

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