Case Western Reserve University has installed CLEANR filters on campus washing machines, demonstrating their potential to reduce microplastics at the source. In this article, CWA's Executive Director & President, Bryan Stubbs emphasizes the importance of this technology and how integrating it into machines could reduce costs and support future regulations.
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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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