Kai Chan
Kai Chan is a professor at the University of British Columbia and co-leads the ‘Plastic Sunset’ initiative of CoSphere, at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability.
Today’s solution is for this country to mandate that laundry appliances include a built-in microfiber filter—like a lint trap for your washer that captures up to 90 per cent of fibers at the source. Oregon, California, and Ontario have proposed such legislation, and it’s already law in France.