Fibre Free

Remediation Strategy

Prevention

Plastic Type

Microplastics

Invention Category

Laundry

Used?

Included in analysis?

Yes

Location Invented

United States

Year^*

2017

Description

Balls placed in the laundry machine or dryer capture microfibers shed when washing or drying synthetic fibers.

Effectiveness or Ecological Impact

Non-peer-reviewed Effectiveness

FibreFree was 40% efficient at prelimiary testing. If one in ten U.S households were to use FibreFree, it could spare the ocean of 35 million plastic bottles of microfiber pollution annually (FibreFree, n.d.).

References

Chou, A. (2018, February 15). Fibre Free founders can help change your carbon footprint, one load of laundry at a time. Blackstone LaunchPad. https://launchpad.syr.edu/fibre-free-founders-can-help-change-carbon-footprint-one-load-laundry-time/; Dunbar, A. (2017, October 2). Invention Designed by SU Engineering Students Selected as a Finalist for the James Dyson Award | Syracuse University News. Syracuse University News. https://news.syr.edu/blog/2017/10/02/invention-designed-by-su-engineering-students-selected-as-a-finalist-for-the-james-dyson-award/

Non-peer-reviewed Effectiveness

FibreFree. (n.d.). FibreFree. Retrieved November 7, 2022, from https://www.livefibrefree.com

* Year designates the year invented; if the year invented was unavailable, the earliest year that an article about the technology was published was used.