Washing clothes now adds to the plastic problem

[Minusorange]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45770358

When you do laundry, synthetic clothes shed tiny threads which end up in the water - about 700,000 fibres in a single domestic wash.

Less than a millimetre in length, the microfibres then make their way into the waterways and seas.

The worst offenders are polyester, acrylic and nylon.

A polyester fleece jacket releases 1,000,000 fibres per wash, according to one study, while a pair of nylon socks is responsible for 136,000 fibres.

Scientists from the University of Manchester found those fibres are littering riverbeds across the UK.

Research highlighted by MPs this week shows they end up being eaten by fish and other aquatic creatures, ultimately ending up in the food chain.

Earlier this year, scientists found fibres, including strands of underwear, in every sample of mussels they tested in British seawaters or bought from UK supermarkets.

Another study, from the University of Exeter, found microfibres in the environment altered animals' behaviour.

I think we're screwed when we can't even wash our clothes without adding more plastics into the wild

 

[Randomface74]

Buy cotton and then its fine?

 

[Raymond Lin]

Buy leather, cotton, silk and wool.

Problem solved?

 

[touch]

Buy leather, cotton, silk and wool.

Problem solved?

Too much effort.

Just dont wash your clothes. Problem solved.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Too much effort.

Just dont wash your clothes. Problem solved.

Go naked.

 

[asim18]

Or just wash your clothes by hand and use a basic paper filter when draining.

Washing machines were only invented so capitalists can enslave more women.

 

[NoobCannon]

Or just wash your clothes by hand and use a basic paper filter when draining.

Washing machines were only invented so capitalists can enslave more women.

Are you serious?

 

[BennyC]

Single use disposable clothing. No need to thank me.

 

[Maccapacca]

All waste water is treated. Surely rather than guilt tripping the GP the water treatment companies should sort it out.

 

[Maccapacca]

Are you serious?

He is and I agree

 

[NoobCannon]

He is and I agree

What a crock of pooh.

Washing machines were invented as an item of convience just like ovens, microwaves and other appliances, not as a means to enslave the masses. Lay off the happy pills!

 

[Monkeynut]

Denim should be ok as it's cotton assuming it's not the stretchy kind.

 

[Dis86]

He is and I agree

Suggest you do a bit of reading. Like the modern oven they're actually accepted as being one of the most liberating inventions for women.

 

[Burnsy2023]

All waste water is treated. Surely rather than guilt tripping the GP the water treatment companies should sort it out.

Assuming that's logistically possible with current technology.

 

[Dis86]

Assuming that's logistically possible with current technology.

I can confirm it is. We routinely filter down to fractions of a millimetre. It's what's required in order to prevent certain viruses and parasites from entering the water supply.

 

[Malevolence]

Buy leather, cotton, silk and wool.

Problem solved?

Yeah, also has the added bonus of royally ******* off the militant vegetarians and vegans too.

 

[Maccapacca]

Suggest you do a bit of reading. Like the modern oven they're actually accepted as being one of the most liberating inventions for women.

Liberating to do what? Enter the workplace, pay for childcare they now need, pay for the washing machine, dishwasher and oven, pay for the car they now need, buy a house, increase the mortgage borrowing in a couple. Quickly enter into debt slavery. How liberating.

 

[neil_g]

I can confirm it is. We routinely filter down to fractions of a millimetre. It's what's required in order to prevent certain viruses and parasites from entering the water supply.

And yet plastic is still entering the oceans, watercourses and food chains at an alarming rate. And has been an issue for some time (see the microplastics thread created last year with some alarming facts in).

Unfortunately its a global issue and needs fixing at the source.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/micro-plastic-fibres-the-new-asbestos.18792486/

https://orbmedia.org/stories/Invisibles_plastics

 

[Dis86]

Liberating to do what? Enter the workplace, pay for childcare they now need, pay for the washing machine, dishwasher and oven, pay for the car they now need, buy a house, increase the mortgage borrowing in a couple. Quickly enter into debt slavery. How liberating.

Liberating in terms of time. A woman doesn't need to do any of those things. They choose to do it every single thing you've listed is a choice.
Also do you mean to tell me for example your wife needs to work so you can afford a washing machine? No. In terms if household income costs they're cheap!

 

[Resident]

And yet plastic is still entering the oceans, watercourses and food chains at an alarming rate. And has been an issue for some time (see the microplastics thread created last year with some alarming facts in).

Unfortunately its a global issue and needs fixing at the source.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/micro-plastic-fibres-the-new-asbestos.18792486/

https://orbmedia.org/stories/Invisibles_plastics

Western countries may go to these lengths regarding water filtration but the main sources of plastic pollution at the moment are pan-asian countries.

Roughly 8 million tons of plastic is dumped into the world's oceans every year, and according to a new study, the majority of this waste comes from just five countries: China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
It's projected that by 2025, plastic consumption in Asia will increase by an astonishing 80 percent to surpass 200 million tons.

https://www.ecowatch.com/these-5-co...f-plastic-pollution-in-oceans-1882107531.html