Culture & Design
Putting Your Washing Machine Into the Fight Against Ocean Plastic
PlanetCare says its washing machine filter can catch up to 90% of the tiny particles your laundry releases into the water.
Illustrator: Cathryn Virginia
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Mojca Zupan was a corporate lawyer doing just fine—“comfort-zone-fine,” as she puts it—in 2016, when a museum exhibit changed her life.
The Plastic Garbage Project depicts the “the origins, life cycle, sense, and senselessness of plastic products.” “I saw these big microscopic pictures of microfibers,” Zupan says of the tiny grains of plastic that slough off synthetic textiles and seep into bodies of water. “It’s ridiculous. Washing machines pollute so heavily.”