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Environmental issues - sources

Under environmental issues, the last paragraf is as follows: "Although cotton offers more "cool crispness" than microfiber when used as bed linen,[23] microfiber is arguably better for the environment because it lasts longer than cotton, needs less water to wash it clean, dries 3x faster than cotton, and also because microfiber absorbs dirt including allergens more effectively than cotton.[24]"

firstly, the first part of it seems kind of irrelevant, and secondly, the sources [23][24] for these statements seems 1) rather amateurish and more alarmingly 2) incredibly biased. The source [24] comes from an article on page called ecomall and the article is written by "micro fiber products online" which is a site that sells micro fiber products. And also that article cites no sources. 83.183.15.24 (talk) 05:18, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Needs major rewrite.

If microfiber had a second-rate teenage fan-magazine, this article would be that magazine. Full of unsupported claims, marketing, and exaggerations, and full of petty details that are neither encyclopedic nor factual. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.242.82.31 (talk) 12:25, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Environmental Politics

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 28 August 2025 and 17 December 2025. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): A alz2006 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by A alz2006 (talk) 15:20, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

source for mechanism of cleaning (Van der Waals?)

We spent a couple of hours looking for a peer reviewed paper or a book that describes the mechanism by which microfiber cleaning cloths pick up and retain dirt and dust, but came up empty. The lead claims that "Microfiber cloth makes use of van der Waals force to remove dirt without scratches". There are a many sources on the internet that also make this claim, but all of the ones we found are either marketing blogs or science blogs with no primary sources. The Van der Waals force page has a picture of a microfiber cloth with the same sentence in question as the lead of this article, and it has a citation, but the cited source is from a science blog, explainthatstuff.com/microfibercloths.html which is not peer reviewed. The Explain That Stuff article does have references, but none of them explicitly explain the mechanism by which microfiber cloths clean.

So our question is: is this common knowledge, marketing talking points, or a factoid (an assumption that's been repeated enough times to be accepted as fact)? We added a "citation needed" in the lead for now. KindRowboat (talk) 12:33, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]