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Podcast: This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro
Episode: Cleveland Tech Startup Fights Laundry Microplastic Pollution
Description: While most of us are at least dimly aware that plastic in the form of polymer microfibers goes into making our clothes; it probably never really even crosses our minds that when we wash them; tiny pieces of plastic make their way into our environment.
But when Max Pennington was a student at Case Western Reserve not so long ago; it certainly occurred to him. So, that's when he and his friends came up with a plan to put a filter on their washing machine to catch plastic residue from the rinse water. After a number of hits and misses...