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This device saves water and traps microplastics as you wash your clothes

Textiles account for 16-35% of microplastic pollution. Up to 500,000 tonnes of microplastics from textiles enter the ocean every year. Swedish start-up Mimbly has invented a way to bring those numbers down.

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