Sustainable Filtering Systems to Reduce Microfiber Emissions from Textiles during Household Laundering

Emissions of microplastic fibers from microfiber fleece during domestic washing

Microplastics are found in marine and freshwater environments; however, their specific sources are not yet well understood. Understanding sources will be of key importance in efforts to reduce emissions into the environment. We examined the emissions of microfibers from domestic washing of a new microfiber polyester fleece textile. Analyzing released fibers collected with a 200 μm filter during...

Indoor Emissions from Household Combustion of Coal

Coal is a highly variable fuel, which ranges from high heating-value anthracite through various forms of bituminous coal to intermediates in coal formation, viz. lignite and peat. Each of these types of fuel can contain different levels of moisture, non-combustible inorganic material (ash), sulfur, and sometimes significant levels of other impurities, e.g. arsenic, fluorine, lead and mercury. R...

Measures to Reduce Vehicle Emissions

(a) Interim Report: urgent measures that should be implemented to prevent harmful air pollutants (October 18, 1996). (b) Report No. 2: measures to reduce exhaust emissions from motor vehicles that utilize gasoline or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as fuel, hereafter they are referred to as gasolineor LPG-fueled motor vehicles, respectively, and also special motor vehicles, which are the largeand...

Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce US carbon emissions.

Most climate change policy attention has been addressed to long-term options, such as inducing new, low-carbon energy technologies and creating cap-and-trade regimes for emissions. We use a behavioral approach to examine the reasonably achievable potential for near-term reductions by altered adoption and use of available technologies in US homes and nonbusiness travel. We estimate the plasticit...

Control Strategies to Reduce Emissions