Matter and BSH team up in bid to clean up washing machine microplastics

Michael Holder
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British clean tech startup claims its filtration technology can prevent 97 per cent of microfibres from entering into washing machine waste water

UK circular economy start-up Matter has struck a major partnership with leading European white goods manufacturer BSH, which will see the Bristol-based firm's patented microplastics filtration technology...

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