I haven't used a conventional laundry machine in about a year. The way I clean things, everything looks brand new, the microplastics are captured, and stuff is

I haven't used a conventional laundry machine in about a year. The way I clean things, everything looks brand new, the microplastics are captured, and stuff is smelling good. At first, I just used a 5 gallon bucket from Home Depot, put some clothes in there, hot water, added All Free & Clear + Clorox2 Stain Remover and Color Booster, then shook about 100 times. More recently I use one of those hand-crank-turned contraptions* that rotates on a stand (multiple are available from Amazon). > But most importantly - never, ever, tumble dry. When its time to dry things, I just hang them up on a drying rack and let them drip into a caserole pan. When the dripping is done (roughly 45 minutes) I re-arrange them for best ventilation and point a small fan towards them, almost everything is dry within 2 hours. You can use a GuppyFriend micropastic bag to catch the microplastics. What got me wondering the most is that the dyes often come out of the fabrics, When you hand wash things its a bit more obvious. I wonder what their eventual fate is. * none of these are really that great, lots of room for improvement here.