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Fibres from washing machines loading Arctic seas with microplastic pollution
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/476/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/476/pub/476/page/54/article/122538thats going to be a hard one to stop
didnt beko have a filter on one of there machines, not heard anymore about it recently
Dave
Not heard about any filters like that. It would be nigh on impossible to make a filter that fine that wouldn’t constantly clog up or be economically viable.
you missed reading this then
https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/appliance-industry-news/114-beko/4393-microplastic-filter-introduced
Davve
“The new technology will block 90{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of microfibers from entering the water sources, with the filtration box located in the detergent drawer filtering the water before discharge.”
Really? Am I missing something? Or is the water pumped out going to go all the way back to the detergent drawer. Sounds very odd.no doubt we will see one sometime soon and then we will understand
another filter for customers to ignor
Dave
20 years ago, many washing machines had proper filters. For example, do you remember having to clear out half a kilo of fluff, etc from the banana shaped Zanussi filters that hadn’t been touched for years? Then, no doubt to reduce call-outs due to blocked filters, more and more manufacturers moved over to the “self-cleaning” type – little more than a coin trap.
It sounds like things are going full circle. However, a filter in the detergent drawer? I am not sure the gunk and bacterial smell will be a hit with customers.
Actually, looking at the Arcelik video on the UKW page, it looks a clever design, using a recirculating pump during the wash to recycle the water through a removable filter compartment at the back of the dispenser. So a variation on Jetsystem, Ecobubble etc. A problem with this design though is that many users might likely remain blissfully unaware of the filter allowing it to clog up to the point where the water bypasses the filter which becomes completely ineffective.
Hadn’t clocked the video. Now it makes more sense. Though I have to agree a lot of people will just ignore that filter.
Yes good idea, must remember to take it out and give it a good wash under the tap and flush it down the sink!
wilf
The thing is we are talking micro fibres, not visible to the eye, you would need a massively expensive industrial filter to stop those getting through. Such a filter would clog up in very short order in a washing machine.
the only thing I can think of is some sort of electrostatic partical attraction device like they used to ues on chimneys. no doubt the boffins are hard at work but I suspect the accountants will have the ultimate say.
wilf
They are talking about synthetic fibres, not necessarily invisible, so any filter which catches fibres would be beneficial. The definition of a microplastic is any particle of plastic smaller than 5 mm:
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