Join Dr. Victoria Fulfer, microplastics scientist at the 5 Gyres Institute, and Anna Cummins, co-founder of the 5 Gyres Institute, for a conversation about microplastics. We'll talk about:
how we ingest microplastics
why that is bad (the personal health and environmental implications)
what we can do about it (on the personal and policy levels—specific to the City of LA and beyond)

Please help us spread the word! Here are our posts on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Here is the chat and here is the recording on your YouTube channel.

Here are some tips and takeaways from the event:

Some filters for your washing machines:

from planetcare.org
filtrol.net/product-page/filtrol

Some filters for your dryers sent to us from 5 Gyres:

These are secondary filters, so in addition to the filters sold in most commercially available dryers.  It is an added step to catch what your current filter isn't catching. This is an additional step of filtration after the lint trap that helps lessen microfibers emitted to outdoor air. Which is hundreds of thousands up to even millions of fibers per load! These filters do not currently come installed on household dryers unless requested. Two of the filters linked below are ventless, and so some people who already have ventless dryers could have similar filtration systems installed already.

filter #1
filter #2
filter #3

Of course, just wearing natural fibers in the first place is the best way to go!!!!

Some suggestions to vet/look for beauty products:

incidecoder.com
madesafe.org
donegood.co