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Question
‘Manufacturing synthetic fibres is actually helping conservation of forests’. Comment.
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Solution
Raw materials for natural fibres are mainly derived from plants and this means cutting a lot of trees. This leads to deforestation. But raw materials of synthetic materials are mainly petrochemicals. Hence, manufacturing synthetic fibres helps in the conservation of forests.
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