Cleaner Seas Group®

❓WHY is Indi™, the microfibre filter, the MOST effective home solution in tackling #MicrofibrePollution? Cleaner Seas Group® have spent the last six years researching, developing and testing and have now launched Indi™ a super-simple, highly effective and intelligent home capture system, saving our seas with every wash. Indi™ features and benefits: 🤖 Each Filter Lasts up to 100 Washes. 🤖 Circular Cartridge System. 🤖 Fits Any Washing Machine. 🤖 No Mains Power Needed, Battery Powered. 🤖 Super-Simple, 10 Min Self-Install. 🤖 Made from 100% Recycled Plastic. Isn't it time you joined the Indi™ #FilterCrew and fitted a sea-saving filter to your washing machine? Fit an Indi™ today and start preventing your household microfibre waste from ending up in our environment. 🌊Cleaner-Seas.com #MicrofibrePollution #SeaSaver #CleanSeas #CleanerSeas #Microfibre #Microfiber #MicrofibreFilter #OceanConservation #OceanHealth #SustainableSeas

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays from the whole Cleaner Seas crew. 🎄🌊🎄🐟 Sending you all festive tidings, love, light and joy from our shores to yours. #MerryFishmas #CodTidings #CleanSeas #CleanerSeas

2024: A WAVE of Change! You’ll have noticed we’ve been quiet on here recently……It’s been such a busy time on deck and it feels like Cleaner Seas Group® have packed a decades worth of growth into the last 6 months! The most exciting news being that we’re on the move… 🌊New Offices 🌊New Filter Products 🌊New Processes 🌊New Team Members 🌊New Collaborators 🌊New Recycling Plant 🌊So many home, commercial and industrial filters out there making a difference. ✊🏼 Most importantly, I’m so proud of how we’ve grown as a team this year, turning a startup with a vision into a scaleup with a roadmap. That’s all thanks to the amazing team at the helm, to which I’m very grateful. What remains consistent as we raise a glass to the past year is our mission, our North Star: to protect and restore our oceans from microplastic pollution. 2025 is set to be even bigger, straight out the gate, we’ll be tackling microplastic pollution on an even bigger scale, with more partners, on more shores and with more circular microplastic capture solutions. Thanks to everyone who’s supported us this year from suppliers to home filter users to our many partners and collaborators. ✊🏼🌊Together we CAN turn the tide on ocean pollution… Watch THIS space…🚀 Dave #cleanerseas #cleanerseasgroup

📣CALLING ALL UK #Textile #Manufacturers Richard Blackburn and University of Leeds are conducting some vital research into #Microfibre shedding during manufacture to start shaping up a clearer picture of the impact of textile manufacture on waste water and subsequently the environment and our oceans. Some awesome innovation being gathered here by FutureFibresNetwork+ University of Leeds University of Exeter The University of Huddersfield Northumbria University. 👙👖🧣👗🧦👚➡️💧🌏🐬 #CleanSeas #CleanerSeas #Microfibres #Microfibers #Research #Impact #Sustainability #OceanPollution

Fish populations could start to collapse if the plastic content in their digestive systems surpasses a threshold of 22%. This tipping point could lead to biodiversity loss as species fail to survive. 🐟 🐠 🐡 Have you read this recent study “Impacts of microplastic ingestion on fish communities in Haizhou Bay, China” by Yuxin Chen? This paper presents a multispecies model, incorporating microplastic effects, which allows a study of microplastics effects on fish communities. Approximately 35% of the microplastic pollution in oceans originates from synthetic microfibres shed by textiles. The researchers found that microplastic ingestion may drive species extinction and biodiversity loss. 🌎 More specifically they concluded that fish communities may experience extinction when the digestive debris ratio exceeds 0.22. This threshold is a warning that community damage could become irreversible as pollution increases. However, the model is based on data from one specific community, so microplastic impact levels may vary by location. The effects of microplastic ingestion are species specific but effects to species at the bottom of the food chain can have significant knock-on effects to species in the rest of the food chain. More research is needed to understand the effects of fibre fragmentation on biodiversity. If you want to know more about how microfibre pollution can be encompassed in your biodiversity strategy this is your last chance to sign up to our webinar “Fibre Fragmentation & Biodiversity Loss” at the link in comments. ⬇️

📣We’re back again…making waves. Yesterday we headed into the #HousesOfParliament to represent the Cleaner Seas Group® and push for change in the area of #microplastics. We met with other UK companies fighting against the pervasive issue of microplastics and to support Alberto Costa MP’s proposed washing machine filter bill. This ESSENTIAL bill has had its first reading the House of Commons recently (see our recent post for more info) and will be raised again in 2025. Organised by The WI we are always honored and inspired to be part of these discussions that WILL drive change in the field of microplastic pollution prevention. Amazing to feel so much positivity and force in the room. Together we can create waves of change. ✊🌊 The WI (National Federation of Women's Institutes) Marine Conservation Society Matter House of Commons #Microplastics #Microfibres #Legislation #Change #CleanSeas #CleanerSeas

Today is #WorldJellyishDay 🦑 These beautiful, majestic #SeaJellies are a source of fascination and awe for the Cleaner Seas Group® but we had one big question… ❓How is microplastic and microfibre pollution impacting jellyfish? What we know so far about #Jellyfish and #MicroplasticPollution in our ocean.. 🦑INGESTION 
Jellyfish can ‘consume’ microplastics through direct ingestion or by ‘eating’ other organisms that have already ingested microplastics. For example, juvenile jellyfish of the species Aurelia sp. can ingest microbeads and microfibres by eating copepods that have already ingested them. The quantity of microplastics jellyfish are consuming is largely unknown but studies (like the one below in Florida) show that 77% of jellies sampled contained microplastics - largely composed of laundry microfibres. 🚨 📄READ THE REPORT: https://lnkd.in/eECDY-Vb 🦑EGESTION 
Jellyfish can egest microplastics I.e get rid of them from their systems. For example, the Rhopilema esculentum jelly can egest over 80% of microplastic particles within 3 hours of clearance. The effect that microplastics have on jellyfish in this process is yet unknown but studies on other marine species imply impact on health, reproductive systems and growth. 🚨 🦑IMPACT 
Chronic exposure to microplastics have shown (in some studies) to have adverse effects on jellyfish, such as reduced growth, increased oxygen consumption, and reduced assimilation efficiency. However, other studies across other species and differing levels of exposure have not detected physiological harm to jellyfish after ingesting microplastics. Much more research is needed 🚨 There is a simple way to protect our oceans from: 🚨THE LEADING CAUSE OF PRIMARY MICROPLASTICS IN OUR OCEAN: MICROFIBRES FROM SYNTHETIC TEXTILE SHED🚨 By plugging in a filter to all laundry outlets and washing machines we can prevent this pervasive threat: ➡️Cleaner-Seas.com ✊🏽🌊Together we can turn the tide on ocean pollution. #SAVEOURSEAS #CleanSeas #CleanerSeas #Microplastic #Microfibre #Ocean #OceanPollution #OceanConservation

📣NEWS JUST IN: Alberto Costa re-introduces the bill to ensure all washing machines have a microfibre filter fitted as standard. House of Commons. 29 OCT 2024. Today Alberto Costa re-introduced the Microplastic Filters (Washing Machines) Bill in the House of Commons. 📃The Bill would require washing machine manufacturers to fit microplastic-catching filters in all new domestic and commercial washing machines. The Bill also aims to raise awareness of the polluting effects of microplastics on our rivers and seas. 🌊TWO HUGE WAVES OF PROGRESS 🌊 Although this isn’t the first time that the bill has been presented Cleaner Seas Group® sincerely hope it’s the last and successful push for this necessary legislation to come into effect. “Microfibre plastic pollution is one of the most pervasive and avoidable forms of plastic pollution. Over a third of all environmental microplastics come from clothing, and research shows that installing filters on washing machines can reduce microfibre emissions by over 78% per was cycle and this number is improving as the technology progresses. Two years ago, I presented this 10 Minute Rule Bill to the House, and many colleagues have approached me since expressing support for this measure and encouraging me to present this Bill to the House again. It has cross-party support and would be an easy win for a government committed to reducing the effects of microplastic pollution on the environment and our health.” ALBERTO COSTA 👀READ MORE ABOUT THE BILL: https://lnkd.in/gZSTrtBd 👀READ MORE ABOUT ALBERTO COSTA: https://lnkd.in/gBs6h8DH) ✊SUPPORT The second reading of this bill will happen on 7th March. Between now and then we urge you to make noise! Share this post. Tag Rt Hon Steve Reed OBE MP and speak to your MP. 🌊Together we CAN turn the tide on ocean pollution. #WavesOfChange #WashingMachineFilter #Legilation #Microplastics #Microfibres #OceanPollution #OceamConservation #Legislation #Government #Change

‘Unless you’re a deeply committed nudist, getting dressed each morning is likely one of the first things you do, closely followed by breakfast. 🍑➡️🍽️ However, these two acts might be more deeply linked than you thought, as research has shown that as humans, we are starting to eat our clothes thanks to the micro-plastics that are released from them, which then end up in the food supply chain.’ 💡A great article from RSVP Live explaining the link between microfibres shedding from our clothing and microplastics being found in human bodies. 🐟🫀🫁⛑️ 👀READ HERE: https://lnkd.in/eKyj8b2a The article doesn’t, however, outline one very simple action you can take today to start preventing this pervasive pollution by fitting a microfibre filter to your washing machine. ➡️Cleaner-Seas.com Together we can turn the tide on ocean pollution. #Microfibres #Microplastics #OceanHealth #HumanHealth #OceanPollution #OceanComservation #SustainableFashion #CleanSeas #CleanerSeas

FILTER FOUNDER SHOWCASE: Bude Laundry, Cornwall 🧺👕👖🧦 Bude Laundry, our local commercial launderette, have shared our vision and been supporters since the very early days of Cleaner Seas Group® They are part of a very special group of CSG supporters we call 'The Filter Founders' ✊ Bude Laundry have not only been early adopters of our commercial INDIKON filter range but, as our neighbors and friends, have also been an invaluable R+D testing ground across the 2 years we've worked together as filter partners. "We're always looking for ways we can do laundry in a more sustainable and planet-friendly way, so having a groundbreaking solution on our doorstep has been amazing for us. The CSG Filters are such a simple, easy to install solution to a massive issue within our industry and have definitely helped us win some new accounts as a greener and more ocean safe option for Bude Laundry. The CSG team happens to be a great team to work with too so that helps!' Barnaby, Director Bude Laundry. https://lnkd.in/enRZfhCY Cleaner Seas Group® are tackling microfibres on a domestic, commercial and industrial scale. From independent launderettes to global hotel chains and from cruise ships to waste water treatment works we're forging new paths in microplastic pollution capture and recycling. Join Us ➡️https://lnkd.in/eVrGXHNK #CleanSeas #CleanerSeas #Community #ResearchAndDevelopment #Sustainability #Collaboration