It’s finally fleece season again. Finally some good news, right? Sadly, wrong. Those magic pile fleeces we’re all obsessed with are actually terrible polluters of micro plastics—polyester microfibers that shed like crazy with every wear and wash, eventually landing in waterways, oceans, and our food chain. Tragic how something so cozy can be so bad for the environment.
To help, Swedish style masters and low-key leaders in the manufacturing of environmentally conscious apparel and outerwear, Houdini, has teamed up with material innovators at Polartec to develop the world’s first fleece designed to fight plastic waste, Project Mono Air—and they’ve made it open source so the whole industry can get in on the feel-good action.