plastic filters

[electrofix]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53196793

Dave

[kwatt]

“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.

[electrofix]

and how many percent will listen
or can see the point, or dont care etc

but the manufacturers thats the way to go and you can legislate

Dave

[wilf]

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

[EFS]

Filters nowadays are just coin and button traps. Anything else just passes and the user still doesn’t clean it until the machine stops.
Natural fibres are biodegradable and the only solution to plastic pollution is to stop using it in clothing manufacture.
Manufacturers are not going to stop using polyesters and other because they are cheap so the answer is in legislation to ban the stuff because joe public will still keep buying the cheap disposable Primark crap and not quality longer lasting stuff.
My linen shirts are wearing well and have been washed 50+ times.
Right that’s the rant done so I’m just going to put my sandals on and go out and hug some trees.

[kwatt]

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.

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