What are microplastics?
Microplastics are small plastic pieces less than 5mm long. The first group of microplastics include granules used in cosmetics and hygiene products and for medical purposes.
The second group of microplastics comes from the disintegration and mechanical abrasion of plastic products or plastic waste. This includes plastic bottles, plastic bags and synthetic fibres. Fleece clothing in particular loses a lot of microfibre particles.
ENJO synthetic fibre products
Most of our fibre products are made from the synthetic materials polyester, polyamide, polyacrylics and polypropylene. Abrasion in the washing machine also causes our fibre products to lose a very small amount of microfibre particles.
Results
We found that an average home that uses only ENJO products inside and outside, produces 16g of microplastics per year (calculated for a 4-person home). This is equal to the weight of around 7 grains of rice and caused by washing the ENJOtex Fibres.
In comparison, the same family would save 25 plastic bottles of traditional cleaning products per year. There’s also the many litres of chemicals which would go down the drain.
If you want to prevent microplastics from going into the sewerage system when washing, we recommend installing a microplastics filter on your washing machine.
How to stop ENJO products becoming waste
We're passionate about reducing household waste, it’s important to us that old ENJO products don’t end up contributing to a landfill.
When the time comes to refresh your ENJO cleaning products, so you can send us your old ENJO hardware and fibre products. It is as easy as taking your clean, dry old fibres to your local Australia Post and return them to:
ENJO RECYCLING
Reply Paid 4234
Myaree BC WA 6960
Once we’ve collected enough old fibres, we send them to UPPAREL for recycling. Find out more about our recycling program here.