Their first target: the humble washing machine, which environmentalists say ... This has been tricky: Microfibers are, well, micro, and there’s no industry standard on how to measure them.

Their first target: the humble washing machine, which environmentalists say ... This has been tricky: Microfibers are, well, micro, and there's no industry standard on how to measure them.

The terrible microplastics mess we’re making — thanks in great part to the rise of synthetic clothing — apparently inspired Samsung to develop some new washing machine tech, which it called ...

“So we just made basically a strainer and tried to run a load of washing machine wastewater through it." "And what we saw was pretty disgusting,” remembered Chip Miller, COO of CLEANR.

They used part of the money to buy the company’s first washing machine – an LG model - that could be used to lab test their filter. CLEANR has also installed a filter in the washing machine at ...

It argues washing machine filters are the only effective ... “We're pushing out half a million tonnes of micro-plastics into our oceans every year, that take hundreds of years to degrade ...

In an interview with KATU News, Patterson mentioned a European washing machine she recently used in Canada with this technology. Although no retailers sell washing machines with this filtration ...