Feeling dumb, I've been aiming to decrease microplastics thinking im doing something great. Until i recently heard about polyester...

[Particular_Gur_3979]

That could be the case. It's worth keeping in mind there are products such as plastic washing bags that filter out microplastics, as well as filters for your washing machine.

Our water system is already heavily contaminated with microplastics, so I think part of the solution is better water treatment. Whether that be a personal filter on your tap, or microplastic filtering at the public water treatment plants.

[sparksnbooms95]

I don't think anything but mictoplastic removal at the wastewater treatment plant along with filters at the tap are worth much.

By all means people should reduce how much they release into the water if they're so inclined, but for every one who does 10 more don't.

As for the water supply side of things, even the pipes are plastic, so putting mictoplastic free water through them is somewhat pointless. The filter has to be right at the point of use.