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Can you tell me first what is a textile?

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Oh, that's a very good question.

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A textile is everywhere, it's made of fibers.

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A building has a structure of wood or brick.

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A textile has a structure made from fibers.

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Okay, like what kind of fibers?

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Fibers, all different kinds, natural, and in past 70 years, 80 years, also synthetic.

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Okay.

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So, we created synthetic fibers, for one reason.

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Yeah, because some of the properties, the natural fibers did not have.

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Like stretchiness.

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The strength.

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Strength.

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And toughness.

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So, we have to create things.

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So, we just invented something new.

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Yeah, something new.

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But where do those fibers actually come from?

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And natural fibers grow, such as cotton.

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Okay.

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Synthetic fibers come from the oil.

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Because oil.

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And we extract many, many different products from oil.

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Some of them are the basic blocks of the polymers that they make the fibers.

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For synthetic material.

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A molecule is made of carbon or silicon.

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And then it has a few other atoms around it.

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And then create a monomer.

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And the monomer put together, create a polymer.

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And polymer, many of them together, create a single fiber.

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Okay.

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And then single fibers twisted together, create yarn.

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Yarn is made into the fabric.

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And the fabric is cut and sewn into clothing.

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So, resources such as oil or other resources are there.

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We have limited resources, so we have to be careful how we are using it.

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Yeah?

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A single t-shirt, a cotton t-shirt.

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It takes 750 gallon of water to process it.

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Oh my gosh.

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Just one t-shirt.

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Or one t-shirt.

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Okay.

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So by the time we get a cotton piece of clothing, even if the fiber is natural, we've used a

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lot of unnatural processes and a lot of resources to get it into this new form.

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Because it's not like a shirt grows on a tree.

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Exactly.

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Every single fiber has a use.

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No single thing is bad or feel good.

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There is a bad selection of end-use by things that last longer.

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You use it more.

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Therefore, you extend his life.

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Thank you.