[schiffern]

The problem isn't really "buying new clothes," since most of the microplastics are released in the laundry. Sewage treatment plants aren't designed to remove them, so they get released with the discharge water. It can also clog up septic leachfields.

They do make purpose-built products to filter microplastic lint from laundry[1][2], but a more hacker approach is to just search for "pool filter."

I wish they made comparable products for the dryer.

[1] https://www.filtrol.net/

[2] https://planetcare.org/

[onlypassingthru]

> I wish they made comparable products for the dryer.

Isn't that just the lint filter? Every dryer I've seen has one.

[kyleee]

Those are probably not fine enough (in terms of filtration) and retrofit may be difficult if it restricts airflow.