Microplastics are an extremely serious ecological and health issue today. If you'd like to read about them, check out this article on our website: bit.ly/2SqCr2H
@@rkan2 Yes they breifly mentionned filter bags! if you wanna get one, there's guppybags by patagonia and then theres also filter balls that you can through in your laundry by Coraball...not very expensive if you consider the other options!!..especially for how long they last.
Yeah no kidding i wear boxers, t shirts and socks for 2-3 days, pants and sweater for a week or two. And i keep my clothes until theyre broken. Im awesome for the environment
I like how normal citizens have to pay for special filter on their cars and now washing machines when really the big companies are responsible for most the pollution and they are not forced to do any thing about it...
Its our fault..you can blame other people, but that leads to nothing. Civilians are the core of the nations and are responsable for everything that happens. People have just become irrasponsable and let the government take responsability when thats not what their job is. It just shows you that something vital isn’t right in life. The people have given their duties and obligations to companies and government.
Nicholas Jolie Hey...when your responable. Life doesn’t give two toots what you knew or didn’t. If you forgot to take your kid to school. The courts not going to care that you didn’t know and forgot. All that matters is that the problem will bite us back and that we were supposed to take action. All men are created equal and all men are responsable equally.
Raven Juniper Well, there is a simple plot twist here. I don’t think companies are doing most of the mess. There may be mistakes happening that we aren’t aware of. For example. Burried trash may be flowing into aquaducts and then flowing into the ocean. And third world countries spill trash in the water because they lack law enforcment. Also trash transportation ships possibly sink during hurricanes ect.
I read somewhere that older washers had filters that could trap these microparticles. However, those filters were taken out after getting clogged over time. We need to have legislation that requires all washers to have such filters which in turn are easily replaced. Of course, relying less on synthetics is an important aspect.
@@1sadsexually2sadsexually54 for your own sake pls give it a try yourself ( i know u wont cos u a lazy fk since u havnt even made it to google "washingmachine microplastic filter - a item that dosnt exist-) but try and call your manufacturer.. i forecast "this is not possible sir we are sorry but in the future NEWER products will come with solutions" we live in capitalism.. no business man on earth would let pass such a chance to sell his products duno if you understood it already but all the seals and vegan stuff u see on those fancy products is just a alternate way to opt out more money of you costumers.. why else are vegan products more expensive than actual non vegan??
@@2salzig2spucknapp You're just spewing a bunch of non-arguments while complaining about the woes of capitalism without proposing any real solutions, whether internal or external to the system. Not everyone is a communist/socialist, and many people are insert in a consumerist mindset which does make them consume a whole lot more. But legislation can help ameliorate those effects, through the use of filters. Of course, you have no bloody clue of what you're talking about because a quick Google will show you integrated microfiber filters to washing machines and others such as this ua-cam.com/video/dWjkOf3ptLE/v-deo.html Real vegan products like vegetables and legumes aren't more expensive than non-vegan ones are, it's the processed things that cost more. So yeah, microfiber filters exist, people have a consumerist mindset, and the best we can do in the short term is decrease the effects of relentless consumption and notion of wealth promoted by neoliberalism, through the use and promotion of ecological legislation.
@@nalzeck if your linked video is that good of a solution why does it has 100 clicks and even comments disabled? i googled it filtrol 160 for home use this is a... microfiber filter .. aka a piece of plastic with some netting in it that they want to charge u 160 bucks for you wana wake up ? youre yada yada is interesting and all but when it comes to reality money is the keyfactor why is it 140 $ and not 30$? i can tell you because the target audience is guys who are intellectual carebears so they most likely graduated and have a higher income and have money to spend on such things like microfiber filters.. same for vegans this is far more than just a solution to a cleaner and fairer planet it is also a lifestyle product you can flex infront of your family and friends.. deal with it! if you disagree than please tell me why in the world this thing of plastic would cost 140$ when the materials is the cheapest avaiable and prob 1,20 $ in production?
@@arnoldshmitt4969 you cannot add these filters to sewage systems... They are TOO thin. This is why micro sized objects are broken down chemically in a plant.
Well humans tend to create a solution for one problem, that tends to create other problems. So clothes and Coates were expensive, then plastics case around, made it cheaper, so people could have more variety in clothes or live comfortably and affordably in colder climates. Now, we gotta deal with micro plastics because we now see that while having affordable clothes is great for society, having fish with micro plastics in them are not good.
@@CardsNHorns04 having affordable clothes is not good for society, we are buying more clothes than we need to use it few times because fast fashion is changing every few weeks. As consumers we are not aware of the true cost of fashion.
It's not necessarily more expensive to buy natural fibers. If you have the option, you can thrift clothes and get great quality pieces from the same price of cheap fast fashion ones, and you'll look better as well.
Once you get into outdoor clothing I would beg to disagree. A Merino layer costs up to an order of magnitude more than the synthetic stuff with worse thermal performance when wet.
Christoph Stich ok but I don't think this video or this comment was intending to comment on those clothes. Rather just in general the day to day clothes you wear.
you know, the sheep prefer real wool instead of syntethic clothes, even when wet. are you taking care of your wool garmets if they get wet so easily? @@christophstich5066
They are also cheaper because of economies of scale now. I bet if we put a focus on growing hemp based fibers everywhere, for example, the price of that would go down and down over time. It might not match the price of making plastic fiber, but, it's about what we invest a majority of our industrys in.
Hemp clothing wouldn't be expensive if people were actually allowed to/encouraged to grow it by local governments and it became a more common crop. Arguing that synthetic clothing is cheaper isnt a valid argument for polluting our Earth.
Have you ever been to a hemp farm and seen how much plastic they put on the ground to grow the stuff? Plastic weed barriers commonly used in hemp farming and other agriculture is not recyclable at all.
@@lordmike9384 Thats easy to remedy. Just ban plastic and pesticides in farming. The cost will increase but the number of people needed to do the job will increase to.
Acrilic wasn't comfortable to wear. It gained static electricity like no other material and made you sweat like an idiot. The sweating aspect is the reason, why I am avoiding all syntheitc materials if possible.
I used to work for a swimwear manufacturer, and there was a client that was conscious about this and created a bag to use when washing clothes catch the microplastics. It was interesting to learn about this while he was in development of his collection.
The individualistic solutions they propose will never work. Only the rich few will every have the time and money to do them. We need societal solutions. Filters in every treatment plant, subsidies for hemp not oil.
Tax the sale of synthetic clothes to pay for these things. This whole thing is a failure of the market. Currently this environmental destruction is an externality, the cost on it is not calculated into the companies profits, but it needs to be.
what's your solution to the bacteria filled super smelly contaminated water that's left after reeting the hemp to make it usable fibre? Treatment plants can't be filtered, but washing machines can be & yes, fund that through sales of synthetic clothes
Yeah, problem with that. First microplastics are the degraded forms of regular plastic, so sewers already filter that out. Its countries like India and China that simply dump plastic in the ocean that cause the issue we see here. Second, hemp oil seriously? To replace all plastic with hemp would cause so much fertilizer run-off it'd be toxic for every stream, lake, river, and ocean. Even the biodegradable options are better than that. No, your best solution is some biodegradable plastics with recycling of non-biodegradable plastics as well.
@@jacob2359 _"First microplastics are the degraded forms of regular plastic, so sewers already filter that out. "_ why do people comment on videos they haven't watched? Really really stupid, ignorant comment Jacob! Watch the video!
That would probably be a lot more expensive for the tax payer than just having their own filter. Huge amounts of energy would go into putting large quantities of water through them, and maintenance would be a nightmare.
I think you are very confused. Treating all waters for what happends in the washing machine is a huge waste of resources. . Instead, force the industry of washing machines to implement mandatory filters, and have them supplied for free by the nation.
This video is great but I’m tired of journalists continuing to frame environmentalism as a failure of humans as individuals rather than a failure of our institutions. The solution is not always “you humans need to buy more stuff to save our environment”. Talk about public policies!
Yeah, you have a point, but when we the people make better choices in our consumer behaviour and show support for these ideas, the message does go from the bottom up. They see business going to environmentally friendly companies, environmental candidates getting support etc. I don't think the decision-makers are incapable of caring about these issues but in many cases, profit goes before everything else, that's why we need individuals to pressure them.
Dont be sad. Right now there is ships out there collecting the plastic. I think there is a ship from Netherlands and one from Norway. Scientists from Britain was close a few years back gen modify a bacteria that can eat plastic and make oil. It wont be long before plastic is not a problem anymore
Look at this way everything is come from star dust and at the end of universe. everything go back to start dust. We just live here temporary. Those plastic can be pick up and recycle. sure some would get to animal and end up in us but then the cycle of life start again.
i feel so sad about my friends that think that by not using a straw are helping. they buy fast fashion and think they are the problem when the problem is the companies and government for not implementing rules.
Changes at an individual level are unpredictable/improbable at best. Are systems-targeting solutions possible? Like finer filters in treating wastewater & removing macro-plastics to prevent degradation to microplastics?
Line filters are very difficult to implement in a sewage system because they are very thin filters. The amount of pressure exerted from water on the daily would rip these filters in a matter of seconds. This is why most processing plants only remove solid visible waste and break down the smaller ones chemically because it is physically impossible.
Such fine filters would increase the cost of wastewater filtration by at least a magnitude if not several.. Both in energy usage and and filter costs. Why would you filter all wastewater anyway when only a portion of it is a problem? By comparison: It would most likely be more cost-effectice to just throw away clothes made from synthetic fibers than to try to filter all wastewater with filters fine enough for filtering microplastics. Much more feasible solutions would be to make clothes washing illegal in amything but industrial scale.. This way you could wash clothes in several distributed areas, where it would still be economically feasible to wash clothes and filter all the wastewater from these facilities..
What about just making washing machines come with filters? I'm sure washing machines already have to conform to other sorts of standards in most places.
Y. R tax the rich. But that’s also a bad argument. It means we can literally do nothing ever because “taxes”, yet we tend to fund tax breaks for the ultra wealthy and billion dollar jets that don’t work just fine.
Using filter bags is a good idea. It is also significant to develop strong synthetic fibers. You should not forget that a quarter of microplastic comes from tires.
Sounds like the easiest solution is to lobby for stricter filtration in water treatment plants to stop these plastics from getting into the ocean at all. Everyone buying a filter for their laundry machine is horrifyingly inefficient when the local water treatment plant could just buy one and service thousands of homes.
Back in my day we ran around naked & ostriches had feathers with useless skin under them - full of holes after we pulled out the feathers :P The lambskins made wonderful boots though :) Don't say ugg!
Thanks VOX for shedding light on this. However, I don't agree with the statement that switching to natural fabrics isn't an option. The natural fabrics are mainly so expensive due to the lack of economies of scale. Hemp, for example, only makes up less than 0,01% of the total industry. Switching to natural alternatives will cause prices to go down. Maybe not as much down as polyester, but at least enough to stop a lot of the pollution.
Hemp has pollution issues though, I'm really not sure it's viable to scale up to massive scale. Wool & silk are probably the better options. Silk will never reach massive production, but it has really good durability properties, so a switch in attitude to less but higher quality clothes fits well with that. Same with leather - after first wiping out the use of toxin chemicals to make it, possibly even scobie based leather as well, with the increasing popularity of kombuca
Lilac Lizard could you elaborate on hemp’s pollution issues? Never came across those. In my opinion plant based is better, because you can see what happens when demand grows with animal fabrics such as cashmere ...
@@erikdgroot _"could you elaborate on hemp’s pollution issues? "_ hemp fibres are separated from the other plant fibres via a process called "reeting" which is basicly controlled rotting & it's known to have serious contaminated water disposal issues. Not allowed to grow hemp where I live, but linen/flax has the same process, so I have grown some of that myself to learn about it & I have to say it doesn't seem to be exaggerated to me, I really don't know how you would get rid of that wastewater that's so full of such smelly bacteria. Even just with small quantities I had issues. Flax can be reeted by leaving it on moist ground in the right conditions, but it's much harder & gives a poorer quality product (I gave up trying tbh, couldn't get it to work with the weather I have here) but it doesn't seem that hemp can be done in that way due to it's harder outer fibres & softer inner ones & also, another comment here was mentioning that hemp is actually much rougher than cotton to wear, so that would be serious exacerbated by non-water reeting too, making it more like wearing a hessian bag than cotton. Maybe there's a solution out there that someone can come up with, but I'm just not sure there's anything really solid available right now or in the near future that doesn't cause serious water pollution issues _"what happens when demand grows with animal fabrics such as cashmere ..."_ That's one I don't think I'm familiar with (I might be with prompting) I'm aware of the serious issues with angora & those poor rabbits that are the near exclusive source of it today :'( but cashmere's different to that isn't it? Would you mind elaborating on that one for me?
Lilac Lizard but rotting something thats natural (i.e. you don’t need pesticides to grow flax or hemp) doesn’t cause environmental damage right? It’s just organic material finding its way back in the ground, or am I missing something here ... Just type in “cashmere production problems” and you’ll find what I’m talking about. www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/insideasia/2017/02/16/cashmere-cost-environment/amp/ stuff like this.
I swear it's like everyday something new is popping up that we're doing wrong. Recycling doesn't virtually work anymore, laundry is now also a problem, the awareness on how fragrances are bad is increasing, some forms of renewable energy is detrimental to the habitats they're, etc. We really made a huge problem, the more we try to fix it the more we notice how far in our lives it has trickled down. We basically need whole lifestyle changes. I'm here for it though, we need to address this ASAP. We will find solutions.
I don't care if it's expensive, I still want to buy a filter, I have ever since I heard it was an option but from my understanding, they're not available for retail sale. From my understanding, if all washing machines were to install them, the cost would only be around $100 extra per machine anyway, so quite reasonable imo to save the planet! Yes, too much for some, so maybe the cost could instead be funded via a tax on synthetic clothes that directly paid for the filters, that way those with the money to buy lots of clothes ie those causing the problems anyway, would be the ones to fund the solution, while those without money or buying second hand clothes to care for the environment don't have to pay it. Only problem after that is getting consumers to accept it & empty the filters, which is the reason that washing machines are now free of any filter, that consumers didn't want the mess of emptying filters. this is also the reason (beyond cost) that manufacturers don't want to add them to machines, so come on people! Do we care about the planet & ultimately our own health too or are we too selfish to even clean a filter to save the world?
Lilac Lizard LOL only $100 extra. Something tells me, you’re a child that has never bought something worth $100, let alone something that costs $100 extra.
@@jamesbizs something tells me you have no idea how to balance a budget & spend WELL over $100 a month on unnecessary junk for selfish reasons. If you budgeted properly & prioritised the environment over constant luxuries, you could skip your Starbucks & Netflicks & afford a filter to save your health & the health of the planet! There are some people out there that can't afford it sure, but did you read my comment? There's no reason those filters couldn't be funded via a tax on synthetic clothes, therefore those people who genuinely can't afford it won't be paying for it anyway, those with the money to buy new clothes for every night out will foot their bill. In my country, taxes & rebates aren't an unusual thing. Tax gets added to the sale of the item for the government to collect, then eligible people fill in a government form to get a rebate directly deposited into their bank account. In this case any citizen buying a new washing machine with a filter would receive the rebate form along with their receipt, with an address on it to send the form to for the refund (and stores selling the washing machine would likely offer a service of filling in the form as standard, or even selling the machine at the price after rebate, with form simply requiring a buyer signature to allow the rebate to go directly to the store to reimburse them the effective credit they provided the buyer. It's not hard! Meanwhile, thanks to this video I have found a micro-plastics filter or sale, now I just need to find it in, or someone who ships to my country to buy (with one option due to become available in about 6 months time, so it's in my wishlist until then - unless I find an alternative sales option sooner)
@@lilaclizard4504 It sounds like you're a pretty capable adult to me who knows how to budget and spend. The average person typically spends hundreds of dollars on small things without even realizing it, even college students. Someone who drinks starbucks three times a week ends up easily spending $100 in just a couple months. Textbooks are another expense that would easily cost someone $100. Here is a fun trick too: Pre shredded packaged lettuce costs $2 * 52 (weeks in a year)= $104 A bunch of lettuce (not pre-cut) maybe costs $1 (sometimes less) * 52= $52 Keep in mind, the first figure is if you eat salad just a couple of times per week. The really crazy thing though, is that this can apply to many other aspects of shopping too from chicken to fruit. So now that I've at the very least saved you $48 with just lettuce, the question is, how are you choosing to spend that money?
There are bacteria in a pond next to an old nylon factory in Japan that eat and process nylon. Vox should do a video on nylonase and interview scientists to see if we could use it on other plastics.
This needs to be addressed at the corporate level. Like every thing I see about the environment. It shouldn't be up to the consumer to know all this and that and ppl shouldn't feel bad about things like buying a fountain drink or a bottle of water. Change the product or packaging.
This video addressed a good point concerning the consumption of plastics in fishes then it being passed to humans. I think it’s also good to add on that planktons contributes to about 50-85% of the Earth atmosphere’s oxygen!
0:26 Well who is dumping all that garbage in the oceans! Ah forget it, we’re all dead. There’s way too much plastics everywhere. I’ll just stop buying fruit in plastics and orange juice in plastic bottles as a start.
Plastic packaging in most cases makes a whole lot of sense especially when it is discsrded properly, like it is in most western countries. You can increase the shelf-life of several foods by days if not weeks, by just packaging them in plasti, which has very minimal impact from the plastic itself. Keeping the food consumable for longer has a much greater impact on emissions for example.
Y. R Yeah... The majority of actual plastic waste (like the large pieces) comes from countries where there aren't great waste processing capabilities...
Ryan C I agree... I'd start at capitalism, by regulating it in strict way that would make these things unfeasible! I'm talking about environmental protection taxes or something along the lines..
Ryan C You’re very ignorant. Without plastic and with your view, humanity would be so far behind than it is now. That needle for that vaccine? Plastic sterilized it and improved the lives of thousands. Food that the poor couldn’t afford before? Plastic helped make it cheaper and last longer. Clothes, electronics, furniture. Plastic has helped a lot. Getting rid of plastic without a suitable alternative is a no go.
And what about the people around the world that clean their clothes by beating them on rocks? All the solutions provided by this video and in the comment only work in the first world.
Why doesn't every single washing machine in the west have filter? Back when I was living in China almost 10 years ago, every single washing machine has it. What the hell?
@@niyazmather The filters you are referring to are there to prevent your drain from becoming blocked. They are an order of magnitude too large to block the microfibers mentioned in this video.
People don't want plastic and pollution but they don't want to do the things that would stop it like completely getting rid polyester and any synthetic clothes
Genetically modified plankton, a change in digestion enzymes should do the trick. It would be relatively safe too, despite what many people think. Of course problems might arise from these changes, but it would more than likely not cause large ecological problems, as something like releasing plumes of plastic eating bacterica would do, and would be extremely effective, albeit less than bacteria with the same enzyme adjustment. Although you might not like the idea of geneticly modified organisms, they are extremely safe and controlled, watch some videos on CRISPR (cas9) if you want more of an understanding of how genetic modification works.
Sometimes I wonder, if we somehow disappeared from Earth and returned a hundred million years in the future, how would the biosphere incorporate the plastic we left behind?
Filters in washing machines should be made mandatory the way they are in car exhaust pipes. Particularly it should be *government regulation* so that the companies HAVE to obey instead of making private people pay extra. Maybe they could even give you money for swapping your old washing machine, like what the German Government did for old cars. Of course hemp fiber is also a good idea.
From my understanding they don't make them due to a perceived lack of demand :( They would only cost around $100 each to be fitted into washing machines during manufacture, but manufacturers refuse & don't even include basic level filters anymore due to consumer demand to remove them for convenience :( If you do manage to find one though, I'm definitely buying one!
@@lilaclizard4504 I've not given it a lot of thought so far but in the UK you just kind of jam a waste pipe down a drain and that's it. So some kind of actual connector for starters, followed by a water filter of some description. Nothing fancy but should be pretty simple to fabricate.
@@nonegiven2830 yeh, same drain hose system here, I was wondering when the video mentioned a bag if maybe sticking a bag like that over the end of that pipe might work? The filter idea you're talking about sounds good, but could it handle the speed of water outflow? That's a big hose pipe & seems to drain really fast! I had a filter on my shower years ago, but it would only allow water to run through at about 7litres per minute I think it was, was low even for a water saving shower head. I'm not even sure what sort of mesh or level of filter is needed for microfibres tbh
I only ever buy natural fibre clothes. Never any synthetic or plastic based. It's only slightly more expensive (5-10%) and it REALLY helps our oceans, as well as reducing carbon footprint. Small easy things like these are something everyone should do. And if you can't afford new clothes, get used but make sure it's natural too! Don't fall into the consumerism trap of buying clothes each season.
Great video. Most people don't realize that plastics are also amazingly efficient sponges for dangerous heavy metals, which accumulate more and more as they move up the food chain.
Funnily enough, I used to work in oil and gas (pipefitter), and we always wear natural materials because the synthetics melt to your skin during flash fires. We handled the material used to make them but couldn't wear them because they're too dangerous.
Y’all don’t like eating farmed fish because it’s immoral but now you don’t want to eat organic ocean caught fish because of micro fibers. Make your damn mind.
@@caroselloshow5615 _"Eating cattles? That is even worse for the environment"_ not when raised properly it's not! but yes, millions of people rely on seafood for life & they can't fit cows on tiny little islands surrounded by the 70% of the planet that is fishhomes
Now I know the real meaning about synthetic clothes. Even when rayon is synthetic , is not plastic based. I committed a mistake when writing down the text in my eco-art. Thank you for explaining this.
The way plastic climbs up the food chain is called biomagnification. Every step gets more concentrated because if plastic doesn’t get discarded by the host then more will stay in the food chain
There has to be more solutions than demanding the customer solve the issue. The textile manufacturers and water water treatment plant should be accountable too.
Actually the best way would actually be to make those filters less expensive and put them in all washing machine's as standard as well as creating a law which enforces this.
Thanks for enlighting me vox. I already know about plastics in the seabed but never thought of our clothes' micro fibers are also the cause of sea poisoning. I knew that some clothes that are drained after washing you can see little fibers being left out and drained with the water but not to the extent of going straight to our ocean floors. Now i know
Microplastics are an extremely serious ecological and health issue today. If you'd like to read about them, check out this article on our website: bit.ly/2SqCr2H
How to we buy a filter for our washing machine
Timothy White Yeah, it would've been great if Vox would have explored the solutions and their cost-effectiveness a bit more..
@@rkan2 Yes they breifly mentionned filter bags! if you wanna get one, there's guppybags by patagonia and then theres also filter balls that you can through in your laundry by Coraball...not very expensive if you consider the other options!!..especially for how long they last.
Hey at least if the planet goes up in smoke...at least its a planet regardless. Humanity...killing eachother daily
You didn't explain how the microfiber went from the fishes digestive track into the fish flesh...
"Wash your clothes less often" Damn, I've been saving the world without even trying then.
Khadesh Singh meh, but whatever
Yeah no kidding i wear boxers, t shirts and socks for 2-3 days, pants and sweater for a week or two. And i keep my clothes until theyre broken. Im awesome for the environment
@Khadesh Singh depends on where you stab them. What was they doing that required you to stab them?
@Khadesh Singh exactly. We should all just be nudists.
@Khadesh Singh that...... was not a good analogy
Thank you Vox for informing me on an issue I was previously unaware of
It litarlly was in my school newspaper this week
@@aturchomicz821 He is being sarcastic.
@@wazankash yeah but that desnt change that it was in my schol newspaper LITARLLY 3 WEEKS AGO
But now you are aware and will continue using plastic clothing because its cheaper. So, what this video accomplished, exactly?
@@wazankash I don't think he was. I had heard of this issue of microplastics but didn't know that a lot of them come from clothing.
I like how normal citizens have to pay for special filter on their cars and now washing machines when really the big companies are responsible for most the pollution and they are not forced to do any thing about it...
Its our fault..you can blame other people, but that leads to nothing. Civilians are the core of the nations and are responsable for everything that happens. People have just become irrasponsable and let the government take responsability when thats not what their job is. It just shows you that something vital isn’t right in life. The people have given their duties and obligations to companies and government.
Nicholas Jolie Hey...when your responable. Life doesn’t give two toots what you knew or didn’t. If you forgot to take your kid to school. The courts not going to care that you didn’t know and forgot. All that matters is that the problem will bite us back and that we were supposed to take action. All men are created equal and all men are responsable equally.
Nicholas Jolie What can I say? I just get to the point.
Nicholas Jolie Get a job. That responsability is on you. My clothes wont stink, but yours would if you lacked it.
Raven Juniper Well, there is a simple plot twist here. I don’t think companies are doing most of the mess. There may be mistakes happening that we aren’t aware of. For example. Burried trash may be flowing into aquaducts and then flowing into the ocean. And third world countries spill trash in the water because they lack law enforcment. Also trash transportation ships possibly sink during hurricanes ect.
I read somewhere that older washers had filters that could trap these microparticles. However, those filters were taken out after getting clogged over time. We need to have legislation that requires all washers to have such filters which in turn are easily replaced. Of course, relying less on synthetics is an important aspect.
yes lets throw away all washingmashines we own to buy more ecologic ones
*capitalist heavy breathing*
2salzig2spucknapp You can install a filter lmfao
@@1sadsexually2sadsexually54 for your own sake pls give it a try yourself ( i know u wont cos u a lazy fk since u havnt even made it to google "washingmachine microplastic filter - a item that dosnt exist-) but try and call your manufacturer.. i forecast "this is not possible sir we are sorry but in the future NEWER products will come with solutions"
we live in capitalism.. no business man on earth would let pass such a chance to sell his products
duno if you understood it already but all the seals and vegan stuff u see on those fancy products is just a alternate way to opt out more money of you costumers.. why else are vegan products more expensive than actual non vegan??
@@2salzig2spucknapp You're just spewing a bunch of non-arguments while complaining about the woes of capitalism without proposing any real solutions, whether internal or external to the system. Not everyone is a communist/socialist, and many people are insert in a consumerist mindset which does make them consume a whole lot more. But legislation can help ameliorate those effects, through the use of filters. Of course, you have no bloody clue of what you're talking about because a quick Google will show you integrated microfiber filters to washing machines and others such as this ua-cam.com/video/dWjkOf3ptLE/v-deo.html Real vegan products like vegetables and legumes aren't more expensive than non-vegan ones are, it's the processed things that cost more. So yeah, microfiber filters exist, people have a consumerist mindset, and the best we can do in the short term is decrease the effects of relentless consumption and notion of wealth promoted by neoliberalism, through the use and promotion of ecological legislation.
@@nalzeck if your linked video is that good of a solution why does it has 100 clicks and even comments disabled? i googled it filtrol 160 for home use this is a... microfiber filter .. aka a piece of plastic with some netting in it that they want to charge u 160 bucks for
you wana wake up ? youre yada yada is interesting and all but when it comes to reality money is the keyfactor
why is it 140 $ and not 30$? i can tell you because the target audience is guys who are intellectual carebears so they most likely graduated and have a higher income and have money to spend on such things like microfiber filters.. same for vegans this is far more than just a solution to a cleaner and fairer planet it is also a lifestyle product you can flex infront of your family and friends.. deal with it!
if you disagree than please tell me why in the world this thing of plastic would cost 140$ when the materials is the cheapest avaiable and prob 1,20 $ in production?
Give my dude plankton the krabby patty formula, he ain't got no food
It's Bk so true
If he ain't got no food it must be some food, plastic is what were being fed
@@tahalifedive139 who said u r a legend ur mom
All he has is holographic meat loaf
They should add a special filter for this at all sewage treatment plants.
Or just buy less plastic made clothes...
@@goosty17 OR DO BOTH it is always better to have multiple layers of environment protection
We barely process our sewage in the first place
I don't thing this is possible on a large scale
@@arnoldshmitt4969 you cannot add these filters to sewage systems... They are TOO thin. This is why micro sized objects are broken down chemically in a plant.
Great job humans
Hoomen tho
Well humans tend to create a solution for one problem, that tends to create other problems.
So clothes and Coates were expensive, then plastics case around, made it cheaper, so people could have more variety in clothes or live comfortably and affordably in colder climates.
Now, we gotta deal with micro plastics because we now see that while having affordable clothes is great for society, having fish with micro plastics in them are not good.
@@CardsNHorns04 having affordable clothes is not good for society, we are buying more clothes than we need to use it few times because fast fashion is changing every few weeks. As consumers we are not aware of the true cost of fashion.
It's not the fault of the masses, but of the few and the system
Taikamuna Who says evolved Fish would have done any better?
It's not necessarily more expensive to buy natural fibers. If you have the option, you can thrift clothes and get great quality pieces from the same price of cheap fast fashion ones, and you'll look better as well.
Once you get into outdoor clothing I would beg to disagree. A Merino layer costs up to an order of magnitude more than the synthetic stuff with worse thermal performance when wet.
Christoph Stich ok but I don't think this video or this comment was intending to comment on those clothes. Rather just in general the day to day clothes you wear.
you know, the sheep prefer real wool instead of syntethic clothes, even when wet. are you taking care of your wool garmets if they get wet so easily? @@christophstich5066
They are also cheaper because of economies of scale now. I bet if we put a focus on growing hemp based fibers everywhere, for example, the price of that would go down and down over time. It might not match the price of making plastic fiber, but, it's about what we invest a majority of our industrys in.
@kitty kat - true, bat let's not forget that synthetic fibres are literally made from raw petroleum.
I'd prefer if Plankton ate holographic meatloaf instead.
true
Same🤣
Holographic meatloaf is low in sodium.
SANS______ perhaps they should change their name or its spelling after planking became popular, although there are other homonyms
cavetoad also low in food😂
Hemp clothing wouldn't be expensive if people were actually allowed to/encouraged to grow it by local governments and it became a more common crop. Arguing that synthetic clothing is cheaper isnt a valid argument for polluting our Earth.
Thanks!
Back in the day stuff, and hashish gets thrown out..
Hemp clothing 🤔
Have you ever been to a hemp farm and seen how much plastic they put on the ground to grow the stuff? Plastic weed barriers commonly used in hemp farming and other agriculture is not recyclable at all.
@@lordmike9384 Thats easy to remedy. Just ban plastic and pesticides in farming. The cost will increase but the number of people needed to do the job will increase to.
Thanks for making this video, great production and content. Keep it up!
Coolmark why isnt a washing machine filter MANDATORY??? why? How did we even get here
Wtf are you doing here mark
Y’all think Micro-plastics are bad? Wait until you hear about nano-plastics. I try not to inhale air too much these days.
Yea but have you heard of subatomic plastics? They are EVERYWHERE
jake cohen Ever heard of String theory?
Lmaooooo
Good one
For a second I thought you were being seriouz
We’re slowly poisoning ourselves because of our arrogance and ignorance
IN YOUR A R R O G A N C E!!!
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A man of culture I see
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@@mylifeisamememylifeispathe3140 Don't be thx :)
don't eat seafood, don't get heavy metal poisoning, dont eat microplastics, and don't contribute to the extinction of fish life in the oceans :)
Acrilic wasn't comfortable to wear. It gained static electricity like no other material and made you sweat like an idiot.
The sweating aspect is the reason, why I am avoiding all syntheitc materials if possible.
I used to work for a swimwear manufacturer, and there was a client that was conscious about this and created a bag to use when washing clothes catch the microplastics. It was interesting to learn about this while he was in development of his collection.
I can’t believe they actually made Plankton from Spongebob a real thing.
They should've included the Krabby Patty formula with this video.
Sad they didn't make tge chum bucket
Planktons a hell of a vocalist
You're god damn right they did
How to properly clean your metal computer plankton was always a thing
The individualistic solutions they propose will never work. Only the rich few will every have the time and money to do them. We need societal solutions. Filters in every treatment plant, subsidies for hemp not oil.
Tax the sale of synthetic clothes to pay for these things. This whole thing is a failure of the market. Currently this environmental destruction is an externality, the cost on it is not calculated into the companies profits, but it needs to be.
what's your solution to the bacteria filled super smelly contaminated water that's left after reeting the hemp to make it usable fibre?
Treatment plants can't be filtered, but washing machines can be & yes, fund that through sales of synthetic clothes
@@jwddwj9 thanks fellow econ student!
Yeah, problem with that. First microplastics are the degraded forms of regular plastic, so sewers already filter that out. Its countries like India and China that simply dump plastic in the ocean that cause the issue we see here.
Second, hemp oil seriously? To replace all plastic with hemp would cause so much fertilizer run-off it'd be toxic for every stream, lake, river, and ocean.
Even the biodegradable options are better than that. No, your best solution is some biodegradable plastics with recycling of non-biodegradable plastics as well.
@@jacob2359 _"First microplastics are the degraded forms of regular plastic, so sewers already filter that out. "_ why do people comment on videos they haven't watched? Really really stupid, ignorant comment Jacob! Watch the video!
Thank you Vox for bringing up some of the most critical topics to date! 🙌
Funny how they very did a Benghazi video.
@@vivigesso3756 Wow, that's so relevant /s
OR how about we take those expensive filters and install them at water treatment plants.
Robert Menegazzi Exactly
That would probably be a lot more expensive for the tax payer than just having their own filter. Huge amounts of energy would go into putting large quantities of water through them, and maintenance would be a nightmare.
I think you are very confused. Treating all waters for what happends in the washing machine is a huge waste of resources.
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Instead, force the industry of washing machines to implement mandatory filters, and have them supplied for free by the nation.
Doran Martell If you want to pay even more tax then sure go for it.
@IronHide2386 I would prefer to see tax money used properly to prevent us from eating plastic in the first place.
Buy fewer higher quality items in natural material. Wool doesn't have to be washed nearly as often as blended fabrics
I m living on d equator..summer all year round..lol
@@acooktales5142 linen and silk are your friend! :)
This video is great but I’m tired of journalists continuing to frame environmentalism as a failure of humans as individuals rather than a failure of our institutions. The solution is not always “you humans need to buy more stuff to save our environment”. Talk about public policies!
Yes!
Preach preaccccchhhh.
Absolutely
But the humans are what created the institutions...
Yeah, you have a point, but when we the people make better choices in our consumer behaviour and show support for these ideas, the message does go from the bottom up. They see business going to environmentally friendly companies, environmental candidates getting support etc. I don't think the decision-makers are incapable of caring about these issues but in many cases, profit goes before everything else, that's why we need individuals to pressure them.
We have messed up our earth... There is no way goin back... I feel sad
Dont be sad. Right now there is ships out there collecting the plastic. I think there is a ship from Netherlands and one from Norway. Scientists from Britain was close a few years back gen modify a bacteria that can eat plastic and make oil. It wont be long before plastic is not a problem anymore
Go vegan... least we can do!
Look at this way everything is come from star dust and at the end of universe. everything go back to start dust. We just live here temporary. Those plastic can be pick up and recycle. sure some would get to animal and end up in us but then the cycle of life start again.
i feel so sad about my friends that think that by not using a straw are helping. they buy fast fashion and think they are the problem when the problem is the companies and government for not implementing rules.
@@rubyjay5864 and don't buy fast fashion, don't buy new things (every month) don't put your food in the trash and support REAL eco-friendly companies
Changes at an individual level are unpredictable/improbable at best. Are systems-targeting solutions possible? Like finer filters in treating wastewater & removing macro-plastics to prevent degradation to microplastics?
Line filters are very difficult to implement in a sewage system because they are very thin filters. The amount of pressure exerted from water on the daily would rip these filters in a matter of seconds. This is why most processing plants only remove solid visible waste and break down the smaller ones chemically because it is physically impossible.
Such fine filters would increase the cost of wastewater filtration by at least a magnitude if not several.. Both in energy usage and and filter costs. Why would you filter all wastewater anyway when only a portion of it is a problem?
By comparison: It would most likely be more cost-effectice to just throw away clothes made from synthetic fibers than to try to filter all wastewater with filters fine enough for filtering microplastics.
Much more feasible solutions would be to make clothes washing illegal in amything but industrial scale.. This way you could wash clothes in several distributed areas, where it would still be economically feasible to wash clothes and filter all the wastewater from these facilities..
What about just making washing machines come with filters? I'm sure washing machines already have to conform to other sorts of standards in most places.
That's an unrealistic solution too because no one would want to pay extra taxes so it could be implemented in the first place.
Y. R tax the rich. But that’s also a bad argument. It means we can literally do nothing ever because “taxes”, yet we tend to fund tax breaks for the ultra wealthy and billion dollar jets that don’t work just fine.
When you’ve been helping the world by not washing your clothes 👍
Using filter bags is a good idea.
It is also significant to develop strong synthetic fibers.
You should not forget that a quarter of microplastic comes from tires.
Yum yum.
Luckily we live in a time with so many alternatives.
But I still worry about other animals that depend on fish for food.
thumbs up for actually citing sources while displaying info. A rare thing on UA-cam. Thanks for this informative video
Thanks once again vox for giving us a problem to fix but then not actually contributing a solution that helps.
The solution to most of our environmental and economical problems is less people. Do the world a favor everyone. Don't have babies.
Subtle Ink for President
@@Asplur57691 Thank you, thank you. Please don't forget to sign my petition.
@Maratha I actually find living in crowded environment tormenting
They did give a solution thou? Buy afiktwe or buy less clothes. How is that not a solution ?
“Mom I ate some plastic today!”
💀💀.
2 dislikes are from Plankton and Karen.
FFS Karen...
R/fuckyoukaren
Those dislike should be from clothing companies..
Why would plankton dislike the video if they are being affected by this I don’t quite understand the reasoning behind your joke
awesum PVP woosh
It feels like all the food you can buy at the store is tainted somehow. It sucks.
The suggestions could use some work. Ideally the solution is effortless. Maybe all washing machines need a filter to come standard.
So the washing machine companies and water treatment plants need to be held LIABLE for these DAMAGES.
So why should there be cheap products in the first place when the consequence of it is going to be very costly
anonymous supply and demand
anonymous Greed
My friend it is simple: Short term monetary gain.
It's cheap now. That's the biggest issue.
Greed for money
I feel that we should do something about this huge mess, not just talk about it
Should see how much of these microfibers stay in our lungs.
Thats why inhale tru ur nose man
Every day I hear about how the world is ending and we're all gonna die and the they wonder why people are so depressed
Plastic-eating bacteria have emerged already, I think our ecosystems will just gradually adapt to the prescence of plastic.
I prefer cotton or wool anyway. We could also try to make rayon (made from wood or bamboo) with less toxic methods.
Sounds like the easiest solution is to lobby for stricter filtration in water treatment plants to stop these plastics from getting into the ocean at all.
Everyone buying a filter for their laundry machine is horrifyingly inefficient when the local water treatment plant could just buy one and service thousands of homes.
Back in my days, we didn’t need those synthetic fibres... No sir.
Back in my days, we had real ostrich skin.
We still use silk and real cloth here for traditional clothes, and we still use them. Idk about those branded expensive clothes from big industry
😂
Ok Manafort.
Back in my day we ran around naked & ostriches had feathers with useless skin under them - full of holes after we pulled out the feathers :P
The lambskins made wonderful boots though :) Don't say ugg!
Thanks VOX for shedding light on this. However, I don't agree with the statement that switching to natural fabrics isn't an option. The natural fabrics are mainly so expensive due to the lack of economies of scale. Hemp, for example, only makes up less than 0,01% of the total industry. Switching to natural alternatives will cause prices to go down. Maybe not as much down as polyester, but at least enough to stop a lot of the pollution.
Hemp has pollution issues though, I'm really not sure it's viable to scale up to massive scale. Wool & silk are probably the better options. Silk will never reach massive production, but it has really good durability properties, so a switch in attitude to less but higher quality clothes fits well with that. Same with leather - after first wiping out the use of toxin chemicals to make it, possibly even scobie based leather as well, with the increasing popularity of kombuca
Lilac Lizard could you elaborate on hemp’s pollution issues? Never came across those. In my opinion plant based is better, because you can see what happens when demand grows with animal fabrics such as cashmere ...
IBBY see what I did there
@@erikdgroot _"could you elaborate on hemp’s pollution issues? "_ hemp fibres are separated from the other plant fibres via a process called "reeting" which is basicly controlled rotting & it's known to have serious contaminated water disposal issues.
Not allowed to grow hemp where I live, but linen/flax has the same process, so I have grown some of that myself to learn about it & I have to say it doesn't seem to be exaggerated to me, I really don't know how you would get rid of that wastewater that's so full of such smelly bacteria. Even just with small quantities I had issues.
Flax can be reeted by leaving it on moist ground in the right conditions, but it's much harder & gives a poorer quality product (I gave up trying tbh, couldn't get it to work with the weather I have here) but it doesn't seem that hemp can be done in that way due to it's harder outer fibres & softer inner ones & also, another comment here was mentioning that hemp is actually much rougher than cotton to wear, so that would be serious exacerbated by non-water reeting too, making it more like wearing a hessian bag than cotton.
Maybe there's a solution out there that someone can come up with, but I'm just not sure there's anything really solid available right now or in the near future that doesn't cause serious water pollution issues
_"what happens when demand grows with animal fabrics such as cashmere ..."_ That's one I don't think I'm familiar with (I might be with prompting) I'm aware of the serious issues with angora & those poor rabbits that are the near exclusive source of it today :'( but cashmere's different to that isn't it? Would you mind elaborating on that one for me?
Lilac Lizard but rotting something thats natural (i.e. you don’t need pesticides to grow flax or hemp) doesn’t cause environmental damage right? It’s just organic material finding its way back in the ground, or am I missing something here ... Just type in “cashmere production problems” and you’ll find what I’m talking about. www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/insideasia/2017/02/16/cashmere-cost-environment/amp/ stuff like this.
Plankton is just trying to find out what the Krabby patty secret formula is...
I swear it's like everyday something new is popping up that we're doing wrong. Recycling doesn't virtually work anymore, laundry is now also a problem, the awareness on how fragrances are bad is increasing, some forms of renewable energy is detrimental to the habitats they're, etc. We really made a huge problem, the more we try to fix it the more we notice how far in our lives it has trickled down. We basically need whole lifestyle changes. I'm here for it though, we need to address this ASAP. We will find solutions.
It always bums me out when people suggest that solutions to complex problems are rooted in consumer behavior rather than legislation
Our ocean is so dirty
Ray Mak hi
*Our* ocean? M-must crash *capitalism!*
Easy... Wear nothing.
Problem solved 😎
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Its cold though
@@mygamepage5719 or prehistoric-ism i really don't know the correct word don't kill nmme for it
@@hf2992tobias r/woooosh
Check mate
I don't care if it's expensive, I still want to buy a filter, I have ever since I heard it was an option but from my understanding, they're not available for retail sale. From my understanding, if all washing machines were to install them, the cost would only be around $100 extra per machine anyway, so quite reasonable imo to save the planet! Yes, too much for some, so maybe the cost could instead be funded via a tax on synthetic clothes that directly paid for the filters, that way those with the money to buy lots of clothes ie those causing the problems anyway, would be the ones to fund the solution, while those without money or buying second hand clothes to care for the environment don't have to pay it.
Only problem after that is getting consumers to accept it & empty the filters, which is the reason that washing machines are now free of any filter, that consumers didn't want the mess of emptying filters. this is also the reason (beyond cost) that manufacturers don't want to add them to machines, so come on people! Do we care about the planet & ultimately our own health too or are we too selfish to even clean a filter to save the world?
Lilac Lizard LOL only $100 extra. Something tells me, you’re a child that has never bought something worth $100, let alone something that costs $100 extra.
@@jamesbizs something tells me you have no idea how to balance a budget & spend WELL over $100 a month on unnecessary junk for selfish reasons.
If you budgeted properly & prioritised the environment over constant luxuries, you could skip your Starbucks & Netflicks & afford a filter to save your health & the health of the planet!
There are some people out there that can't afford it sure, but did you read my comment? There's no reason those filters couldn't be funded via a tax on synthetic clothes, therefore those people who genuinely can't afford it won't be paying for it anyway, those with the money to buy new clothes for every night out will foot their bill.
In my country, taxes & rebates aren't an unusual thing. Tax gets added to the sale of the item for the government to collect, then eligible people fill in a government form to get a rebate directly deposited into their bank account. In this case any citizen buying a new washing machine with a filter would receive the rebate form along with their receipt, with an address on it to send the form to for the refund (and stores selling the washing machine would likely offer a service of filling in the form as standard, or even selling the machine at the price after rebate, with form simply requiring a buyer signature to allow the rebate to go directly to the store to reimburse them the effective credit they provided the buyer.
It's not hard!
Meanwhile, thanks to this video I have found a micro-plastics filter or sale, now I just need to find it in, or someone who ships to my country to buy (with one option due to become available in about 6 months time, so it's in my wishlist until then - unless I find an alternative sales option sooner)
@@lilaclizard4504 It sounds like you're a pretty capable adult to me who knows how to budget and spend. The average person typically spends hundreds of dollars on small things without even realizing it, even college students. Someone who drinks starbucks three times a week ends up easily spending $100 in just a couple months. Textbooks are another expense that would easily cost someone $100. Here is a fun trick too:
Pre shredded packaged lettuce costs $2 * 52 (weeks in a year)= $104
A bunch of lettuce (not pre-cut) maybe costs $1 (sometimes less) * 52= $52
Keep in mind, the first figure is if you eat salad just a couple of times per week. The really crazy thing though, is that this can apply to many other aspects of shopping too from chicken to fruit. So now that I've at the very least saved you $48 with just lettuce, the question is, how are you choosing to spend that money?
There are bacteria in a pond next to an old nylon factory in Japan that eat and process nylon. Vox should do a video on nylonase and interview scientists to see if we could use it on other plastics.
PETase breaks PET (& polyester) into MHET which can also be broken down.
We _are_ discovering enzymes that break up plastic molecules.
But those are patogenic bacteria
This needs to be addressed at the corporate level. Like every thing I see about the environment. It shouldn't be up to the consumer to know all this and that and ppl shouldn't feel bad about things like buying a fountain drink or a bottle of water. Change the product or packaging.
Legends: Micro used napkins are the the worse for those plankton.
and here i was, procrastinating to do my laundry, now that you reminded me i actually need to get that done, dang
This plastic is more dangerous then what I thought 💭 before 😟
Switching to cotton is better, health is more important than money 💰
Sachin Koparde : I have only worn cotton and wool clothing my whole life.
Especially socks and underwear.
Don't forget buying natural fibre clothes from consignment and thrift stores! That is cheap and sustainable on many levels.
This video addressed a good point concerning the consumption of plastics in fishes then it being passed to humans.
I think it’s also good to add on that planktons contributes to about 50-85% of the Earth atmosphere’s oxygen!
0:26 Well who is dumping all that garbage in the oceans! Ah forget it, we’re all dead. There’s way too much plastics everywhere.
I’ll just stop buying fruit in plastics and orange juice in plastic bottles as a start.
The top six countries that dump the most plastic in the ocean are China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
Plastic packaging in most cases makes a whole lot of sense especially when it is discsrded properly, like it is in most western countries. You can increase the shelf-life of several foods by days if not weeks, by just packaging them in plasti, which has very minimal impact from the plastic itself. Keeping the food consumable for longer has a much greater impact on emissions for example.
Y. R Yeah... The majority of actual plastic waste (like the large pieces) comes from countries where there aren't great waste processing capabilities...
Ryan C I agree... I'd start at capitalism, by regulating it in strict way that would make these things unfeasible! I'm talking about environmental protection taxes or something along the lines..
Ryan C
You’re very ignorant. Without plastic and with your view, humanity would be so far behind than it is now. That needle for that vaccine? Plastic sterilized it and improved the lives of thousands. Food that the poor couldn’t afford before? Plastic helped make it cheaper and last longer. Clothes, electronics, furniture. Plastic has helped a lot. Getting rid of plastic without a suitable alternative is a no go.
Ben Israel Shapiro - “The free market will solve it!”
We need regulation. A filter on every new washing machine.
And what about the people around the world that clean their clothes by beating them on rocks? All the solutions provided by this video and in the comment only work in the first world.
Jeff Detmer I don’t think the people beating their clothes on rocks are as much of a problem as the first world who buys nike clothing
@@evanserickson I do not billions of people running around the World naked.
The free market solves the problem only if the consumers choose to.
@@prolarka Which is the problem. Consumers sometimes don't care / don't know / are lied to by the companies about the damage the companies cause.
Why doesn't every single washing machine in the west have filter? Back when I was living in China almost 10 years ago, every single washing machine has it. What the hell?
Absolutely right. I was thinking the same. I had a Chinese washing machine more than 10 years ago and it had filter built in.
@@niyazmather The filters you are referring to are there to prevent your drain from becoming blocked. They are an order of magnitude too large to block the microfibers mentioned in this video.
People don't want plastic and pollution but they don't want to do the things that would stop it like completely getting rid polyester and any synthetic clothes
It’d be cool if they evolve to metabolize it.
They are saving the world,
Respect to those little brothers :)
Elon Musk do you even watch the whole video? They eat those microfiber, fishes eat them, and we eat the fishes.
nhozdien we could make like a lake filled with these guys and take out all the fish and start dumping our plastic waste in it.
nhozdien as long as the fishes are cooked i’ll eat em 🤷🏾♂️
Next Year:
*Film Theory: Is Plankton from Spongebob actually not evil?*
He gave up on the krabby patty and just started eating garbage
Good thing my family only bought Cotton made cloth.
Genetically modified plankton, a change in digestion enzymes should do the trick. It would be relatively safe too, despite what many people think. Of course problems might arise from these changes, but it would more than likely not cause large ecological problems, as something like releasing plumes of plastic eating bacterica would do, and would be extremely effective, albeit less than bacteria with the same enzyme adjustment. Although you might not like the idea of geneticly modified organisms, they are extremely safe and controlled, watch some videos on CRISPR (cas9) if you want more of an understanding of how genetic modification works.
This just confirms I'm saving the planet by not doing laundry.
Sometimes I wonder, if we somehow disappeared from Earth and returned a hundred million years in the future, how would the biosphere incorporate the plastic we left behind?
Probably more and more microorganisms like bacteria would evolve to eat the plastic
Ideonella sakainesis, a bacteria discovered in 2016, is capable of eating poly-ethylene terephthalate (PET).
UA-cam algorithm picked Earth Day to promote this. 👍🏽 I approve!
Ai doing a good job
Well boys looks like the Chum Bucket really needs that Crabbie Pattie secret formula.
Filters in washing machines should be made mandatory the way they are in car exhaust pipes. Particularly it should be *government regulation* so that the companies HAVE to obey instead of making private people pay extra.
Maybe they could even give you money for swapping your old washing machine, like what the German Government did for old cars.
Of course hemp fiber is also a good idea.
He is just trying to get the secret ingredient for the Krabby patty
"washed clothing using this special filter"
What's the filter? Where do I get one? How do I fit one?
From my understanding they don't make them due to a perceived lack of demand :( They would only cost around $100 each to be fitted into washing machines during manufacture, but manufacturers refuse & don't even include basic level filters anymore due to consumer demand to remove them for convenience :(
If you do manage to find one though, I'm definitely buying one!
@@lilaclizard4504 I might just make my own when I redo the laundry room
@@nonegiven2830 how? What are you thinking? Anything I could copy?
@@lilaclizard4504 I've not given it a lot of thought so far but in the UK you just kind of jam a waste pipe down a drain and that's it.
So some kind of actual connector for starters, followed by a water filter of some description. Nothing fancy but should be pretty simple to fabricate.
@@nonegiven2830 yeh, same drain hose system here, I was wondering when the video mentioned a bag if maybe sticking a bag like that over the end of that pipe might work? The filter idea you're talking about sounds good, but could it handle the speed of water outflow? That's a big hose pipe & seems to drain really fast! I had a filter on my shower years ago, but it would only allow water to run through at about 7litres per minute I think it was, was low even for a water saving shower head.
I'm not even sure what sort of mesh or level of filter is needed for microfibres tbh
Plankton: *eats plastic*
California: *bans all plastic*
Governments should also improve waste treatment facilities to remove more microplastics.
So the question is how many humans now have microplastic inside their bodies. And what is the effects of it on a long term.
Take a five minute shower to limit water usage... Meanwhile at your local frozen foods warehouse cant let the pipes freeze...
Manny Johnson I take 2-3 min showers. Any longer is so wasterfull
Is Mani really real?
Great now I have an excuse to be a smelly bastard, it's all to do with saving You, Me and the Planet!
My plastic has more fish in it, than the plastic I used to carry it.
you mean your fish has more plastic in it ?
@@greg4629 No. His plastic has a lot of fish in it.
I only ever buy natural fibre clothes. Never any synthetic or plastic based. It's only slightly more expensive (5-10%) and it REALLY helps our oceans, as well as reducing carbon footprint. Small easy things like these are something everyone should do. And if you can't afford new clothes, get used but make sure it's natural too! Don't fall into the consumerism trap of buying clothes each season.
Great video. Most people don't realize that plastics are also amazingly efficient sponges for dangerous heavy metals, which accumulate more and more as they move up the food chain.
Plastic- the best and the worse invention of mankind
PLANKTON!? ARE YOU EATING PLASTIC
( this is about SpongeBob)
I feel bad for this, this is why Thanos did right
That snap is going to cause chaos and destruction. Thanos made everything worse.
Not to mention the political and ecological instability that would ravage our planet and other planets
@plusmetal rise Because he lacks intelligence.
Funnily enough, I used to work in oil and gas (pipefitter), and we always wear natural materials because the synthetics melt to your skin during flash fires. We handled the material used to make them but couldn't wear them because they're too dangerous.
better to use cotton cloths, thanks for the video. The chain is so efficient that these micro plastic finally comes back to us.
Y’all don’t like eating farmed fish because it’s immoral but now you don’t want to eat organic ocean caught fish because of micro fibers.
Make your damn mind.
Who knew that plastic would he our demise... karma
Simple fix, dont eat seafood, ez
Next
but what about the fish? are they going to suffer because of what we buy?
Abba123 H unfortunately yes...as are millions of animals around the world already everyday. Reduce, reuse, recycle ♻️
Well hundred of millions of people live thanks to seafood what they are going to do? Eating cattles? That is even worse for the environment
@@caroselloshow5615 _"Eating cattles? That is even worse for the environment"_ not when raised properly it's not! but yes, millions of people rely on seafood for life & they can't fit cows on tiny little islands surrounded by the 70% of the planet that is fishhomes
I thought plankton would be smarter....
With the title, I thought planktons could break down plastic. Disappointed a bit though.
Same
Now I know the real meaning about synthetic clothes. Even when rayon is synthetic , is not plastic based. I committed a mistake when writing down the text in my eco-art. Thank you for explaining this.
The way plastic climbs up the food chain is called biomagnification. Every step gets more concentrated because if plastic doesn’t get discarded by the host then more will stay in the food chain
Better title: "Why are YOU eating plastic?"
There has to be more solutions than demanding the customer solve the issue. The textile manufacturers and water water treatment plant should be accountable too.
Vox really makes some of the best videos on UA-cam.
Actually the best way would actually be to make those filters less expensive and put them in all washing machine's as standard as well as creating a law which enforces this.
This is the video that is making aware of horrible issue at hand!
Thank you for sharing the info:)
Thanks for enlighting me vox. I already know about plastics in the seabed but never thought of our clothes' micro fibers are also the cause of sea poisoning. I knew that some clothes that are drained after washing you can see little fibers being left out and drained with the water but not to the extent of going straight to our ocean floors. Now i know
Basically the money you save on synthetic clothes will spend either by individuals or corporates on expensive filters.
This is exactly why I only wear natural fibers. It’s bio-degradable and luxurious all at the same time. Join the party people and save our oceans.