Microfibre cloth in wash load disaster

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I did a load of washing without realising someone had chucked a microfibre cloth in the drum. It came out with the shiny plasticy bits all over the clothes.
i thought I would just rewash without the cloth but that didnt work …
any ideas ?! And does it matter ? I just didn’t like the idea of the plasticy bits on the clothes ?

I wash all mine in the machine and never had this problem? Are you sure they're microfiber?

I’m not sure now ? Label says wash separately - it’s a fluffy type cloth that’s been used for dusting- definitely spewed out silvery threads on everything else.

Never had this and I wash my microfibre dish cloths regularly. Strange.

Doubt it's microfibre. I put mine in a 60 degree wash with towels and/or bedding, and never have a problem.

So6nds like micro beads not microfibre. I was my microfibre in the general wash weekly, they do melt in the tumbler tho

That’s so strange - thanks for responding all.
any ideas of how to rescue rest of clothes if a rewash didn’t help?

Hang outside and let wind blow it off? Even if it's raining, you could wash again after

Same here, never an issue

Try rescuing a wash when a sanitary towel has accidentally got involved!

It might help to wrap sellotape round your hand sticky side out and pat the surface of the clothes to lift the fibres. Also some tumble-drying might filter out some fibres.

Oh my goodness ! Did anything help?!

Thanks all. - no tumble dryer here but I’ll try the hanging outside and attacking with sellotape if still needed !

We’ve had tissues disintegrate in a wash and the shreds generally come off and into the filter when tumble drying. So if you have a dryer I’d use that for whatever you can and use tape or lint roller on the rest.

Do you have a tumble dryer? You might find a fair bit comes off in that, otherwise buy a clothes brush that has a velvet like pile and scrapes the fluff off… or a sticky lint roller (muji sell big ones that are designed for furniture but might be good in this situation)

Have you a launderette near you? Take there and just use the dryer. It has saved me some tissue disasters.

A rewash with fabric conditioner is sometimes helpful if tissue or stuff has been washed with clothes , so may work in this case too?
Or Hoover them over when dry? Lint roller?
And like another poster suggested, on the washing line on a windy dry day works well but … not many dry days lately.
That said , the very best remedy for things that cover stuff in the wash usually is ….a microfiber cloth 😆

This sounds highly unlikely but I promise it is true...for tissue add an aspirin and rewash