Cleveland startup heading to market with filter that removes microplastics from wash cycle - cleveland.com

Alan Ly, a resident of Stephanie Tubbs Jones Hall at Case Western Reserve University, demonstrates how he removes the collection pod from a microplastics filter in the laundry room.Peter Krouse, cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Case Western Reserve students living in Stephanie Tubbs Jones Hall are on the front lines of an emerging technology that may one day be commonplace in the average household.

Five washing machines in the dorm’s laundry room have been fitted with filtering devices that remove microplastics from the wastewater generated during the wash cycle.

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