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0 pointsReason0772y ago0 comments

> ”Most microplastic in water come from tires.”

And also synthetic clothes. According to the study they found more plastic fibres than plastic particles in many samples.

These get released when you launder your clothes, ending up in the drain water and ultimately the ocean.

Solution? Buy clothes with natural fibres (cotton, wool, etc) instead of plastics. And wash your clothes in a modern washing machine with a microfibre filter on its drain outlet.

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bordercases2y ago

> And wash your clothes in a modern washing machine with a microfibre filter on its drain outlet.

That doesn't solve the whole problem because the microfibres eventually need disposal.

Reason077OP2y ago

Assuming you dump the sludge in the bin when you clean the filter then it’s much better than going into the ocean.

Depending on your location, they’ll either get destroyed by incineration or put in landfill where they’ll do less harm and hopefully break down after a few centuries.

Of course, if you clean the filter by flushing the sludge down the sink then you didn’t solve anything.

bordercases2y ago

The risk is runoff into the ocean or insertion into the water table through seepage within the dump into the soil. Furthermore incineration doesn't atomize these plastics; the smoke plumage may become a part of rain clouds which either recirculates the contaminants into the water cycle, and thus either in the local environment or into the ocean, again.

Obviously these are geography-relative concerns. But they aren't rare.

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0 pointsReason0772y ago0 comments

> ”Most microplastic in water come from tires.”

And also synthetic clothes. According to the study they found more plastic fibres than plastic particles in many samples.

These get released when you launder your clothes, ending up in the drain water and ultimately the ocean.

Solution? Buy clothes with natural fibres (cotton, wool, etc) instead of plastics. And wash your clothes in a modern washing machine with a microfibre filter on its drain outlet.

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bordercases2y ago

> And wash your clothes in a modern washing machine with a microfibre filter on its drain outlet.

That doesn't solve the whole problem because the microfibres eventually need disposal.

Reason077OP2y ago

Assuming you dump the sludge in the bin when you clean the filter then it’s much better than going into the ocean.

Depending on your location, they’ll either get destroyed by incineration or put in landfill where they’ll do less harm and hopefully break down after a few centuries.

Of course, if you clean the filter by flushing the sludge down the sink then you didn’t solve anything.

bordercases2y ago

Obviously these are geography-relative concerns. But they aren't rare.

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