{"id":115379,"date":"2020-11-01T19:24:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T03:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/laundry-filter-saves-the-ocean-from-microplastics"},"modified":"2020-11-01T19:24:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T03:24:52","slug":"laundry-filter-saves-the-ocean-from-microplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/laundry-filter-saves-the-ocean-from-microplastics","title":{"rendered":"Laundry Filter Saves The Ocean From Microplastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laundry-filter-saves-the-ocean-from-microplastics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Video from Waste-Ed. So basically, when we wash our clothes we release microplastics into the environment. The plastics come from fibers in our clothes.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve added a filter to the washing machine to collect these microplastics to prevent these from spreading.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dirt isn\u2019t the only thing getting washed down the drain when you do laundry! Before your clothes make it to the dryer, tiny microfibers break off in the wash and travel through wastewater to pollute our\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=835182140565377&id=2234805989924607\">More<\/a> environment. That changes with this microplastics filter that stops pollution at the source! Just install it on the side of the washer and send it back for safe disposal after it\u2019s full. It captures 90% of the fibers that contaminate our planet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video from Waste-Ed. So basically, when we wash our clothes we release microplastics into the environment. The plastics come from fibers in our clothes. They\u2019ve added a filter to the washing machine to collect these microplastics to prevent these from spreading. Dirt isn\u2019t the only thing getting washed down the drain when you do laundry! [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}