plastic filters

“We urgently require information from robust scientific experiments to determine the capacity of technological solutions to reduce emissions of fibres to sewage that range in size from mili-, micro-, and nanometres.”

Or, how about this for an idea…

Attack the disease, not the symptoms and get the clothing industry to reduce plastics in fabrics. No technological solutions required.

And, teach people to wash stuff correctly.

Or am I perhaps being too simplistic?

K.

so you get a filter to trap the fibers you manage to do it in a way that doesnt stop the machine every other wash and you manage to get the user to understand that there is a filter that needs cleaning then the customer will wash said filter under the tap flushing fibers down the sink into the same drain. job done
as has been said stop this at source but some hope there I think as the clothing industry would need to change radically.

wilf

Being a rant doesn’t mean it’s not correct you know. 😉

People being dumb, bluntly put and not giving a **** is why many clothes get chucked in the bin and, they see them as disposable given they’re so cheap and so they take little to no care of them. So, machine manufacturers, I think sussed that long ago and started to produce machines that didn’t clean well and are just as disposable and again, so cheap they don’t give a stuff and often take little to no care of them.

You’ll probably find more than a few that do so in the next Extinction Rebellion march. Many more droning on about them being “environmentally friendly” by buying an AAAA+++ machine.. then totally ignoring how to use it as well as what they put in it.

The wonderful world we live in eh?

K.