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Its really scary how much comes from one wash! I never realised. Blows my mind. Your idea could work except the steel wool would rust. But the straw and other woody things could turn to a big stinky mush as they hold water and decompose, plus have bacteria from the laundry that will breed in the fibres.

@@sustainableoceansint yeah I guess that wouldn't be ideal unless there was a way to quickly dry it all.

Thanks Clara! That's less micro plastics down the drain!

No I didn't know that and haven't seen any mention of that. How is it a microplastic? I've heard about the issue of the small beads in face wash being an issue.

@@sustainableoceansint in many detergents it was found to contain approximately 178,000 microbeads in one milliliter of detergent. That's equal to over 2.5 million microbeads per load. Also Sodium citrate, tetrasodium EDTA and acrylic polymers are commonly used in liquid laundry detergents and they are microplastics in liquid form.

@@RusinMM That's not good! Wonder why that hasn't been mentioned in any of the microplastic research I read.

You mean hand washing clothes? Yes, that can still produce small fibres from synthetics but not as much as the rough and tumble washing machine cycle. I would worry about your machine wash.

Hi Des, I throw it out or vacuum the dry 'fluff' out of the filter. Takes quite awhile to reach capacity. Have you tried making one?

@@sustainableoceansint yes, it has been attached to my machine for several months now.

@@des6853 Well done! They catch a lot don't they!

@@sustainableoceansint yes, they definitely do their job.

@@sustainableoceansint but I do wonder about just throwing it out. Cuz 1) I gotta go buy more of those plastic nets/mesh and then I can only hope that all the microfibers I collected don't get washed back into a water supply or ecosystem once I throw them out.

The water treatment facilities have their own cleaning and filter... So therefore this is silly!

Every little extra bit helps and also it helps to keep the drain from clogging. 😎

@@nicholaslandolina you are 100% certain that all facilities everywhere have the proper filtration systems to separate out microplastics like microfiber before they reach major water supplies?

@@nicholaslandolina and that's why 94% of American tap water and 76% of European tap water contain micro plastics post treatment. Not to mention there have been recent findings of microplastics in human blood. By the way... Tap water treatment wouldn't do anything to mitigate the water that LEAVES your house and goes back into the water table/oceans.

Understand but plastic is not always the bad guy, its what we do with it and how we dispose of it. When you run this filter just once and see what it captures, it will blow you away. Every wash a huge amount of fibres are going down the drain. So I'm now motivated to use plastic to reduce what I'm contributing to the problem of fibres in the ocean and waterways.

@@davidlennon7196 It's such a dilema. Thank you for caring about the plastic problem.

You've got me stumped there! I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the 6 basic science process skills! :)

It's okay hehe. Btw, I used this invention for my school project which is why I asked. Anyways, thank you for this again!

Of course!

Of course! And great to hear from you and hear your story. The more people we can promote this to the better! I was, and still am, shocked at how much the filter collects - pretty scary.

@@sustainableoceansint awww ty! I have it uploaded as unlisted until the morning, but your link is in the description. We try to do our best living more sustainable as best possible but with quarantine and some life changes it unfortunately paused. That is how I found your video. I also subscribed too. Thanks!

@@sustainableoceansint it is public :)

@@LadyMaReesLife Thanks!!!

Of course! Share as much as you want. The more that reduce micro plastics down the drain the better.