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12/08/2019 – No friend of microplastic

Startup Guppyfriend

The Guppyfriend washing bag has been making headlines – even on the BBC – as the first pragmatic solution to microplastic pollution caused by laundry.

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Three steps to avoiding plastic: Collect-Discard-Learn © Guppyfriend

 
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Guppyfriend Founders Alexander Nolte and Oliver Spieß: “We can’t save the world with our washing bag, but we can make people aware, in a convincing way, of how the smallest pieces of plastic fibres usually end up in our wastewater with every laundry wash.” © Guppyfriend

 
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Three steps to avoiding plastic: Collect-Discard-Learn © Guppyfriend

 
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Those who use the patented Washing Bag will be thinking about such problems – and will often become experts themselves... © Guppyfriend

 
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