I keep seeing recommendations for micro cloths and e-cloths because they mean you can use less aggressive cleaning products. I get this - more than fifteen years ago, I took this advice. A while back, I was gifted more e-cloths and I was using them for everything. They worked well and were easy to wash and dry.
This year, I read about the way in which they're clogging up the seas. Worse, it happens every time you wash them, and I do like a clean cloth. While I avoid man made materials when I buy clothes, somehow, I didn't make the connection with cleaning cloths. Sometimes, I post about the problem with these cloths, not because I'm judging but just because I know a lot of people don't know - I didn't until a few months ago.
If you google "microfibre cloths" and "pollution", you'll find lot of info. You can start here: www.asustainablelife.co.uk/7-easy-ways-to-reduce-microfibre-pollution/
There are two products that you can use in your washing machine. Sadly, the one that goes in with a whole wash doesn't seem to be effective and the one that does seem to work is a bag into which you put synthetics and that's expensive and not what I want.
So, I've given my microfibre cloths to my grateful daughter - maybe they should have gone into landfill? I honestly don't know what would have been the best way for them to die, and I did try to find out.
I'm trying to use rags, but I have bought some bamboo cloths because ... well, because I wanted them. I just like having different cloths for different things.
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Why I don't use microfibre cloths any more
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Cynderella · 17/10/2018 23:05
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