Comments on: New Washing Machine Uses Plastic Instead of Water

By: stovie

stovie — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:16:43 +0000

If people are that worried about desposing the plastic pellets than they could just have it to where the manufacturers give u a 20% or more refund if u give them the used pellets to recycle if they make the refund enough u’ll get about everyone turning them back in, just have it that they bring them in when they get new pellets for the refund. if people don’t recycle them the manufacturer get’s more money but i think people will go for it if u make it a reasonable refund.

By: sm

sm — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:00:25 +0000

DISASTER! What are these people thinking? More difficult to contain plastic pellets? We need a tax on plastics to pay for ocean cleanups http://bit.ly/BU0aX & http://bit.ly/4axRiL .Algalita will not think that this machine is an advance. Please contact them.

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By: Ron T

Ron T — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:45:25 +0000

The new technology seems like a good idea, and I’m sure the inventor has tested it a zillion times for cleaning and material wear. My concern is that small plastics are becoming a huge contaminant. They do not degrade, and when washed down the drain end up as silt, worldwide. They enter low and then accumulate up the food chain. This is a problem with manufacturing plastic and breakdown of any waterborn plastics (ex:floating pop-rings). If a zillion clothes washers worldwide require periodically disposing of a clump of loose plastic particles, where do they all go? If these particles are anything like foam packing peanuts, they will be easy to make and very difficult to get rid of (even with recycling “available”).

By: Stacy Sopich

Stacy Sopich — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:14:49 +0000

Actually the beads have this sort of molecular magic that activates when they are moist and warm that attracts and locks the dirt in the center of the bead, it doesn’t redeposit, and they can be reused hundreds of times. Ever have a nylon shirt that gets dingy and won’t come clean in the wash? Same thing in reverse. I saw it demonstrated at the Clean Show last week in New Orleans. And the polymer beads are really tiny, the mechanical action is no different than water–there may even be an advantage in extending fabric life. It is all very new, the demo was just a concept machine but it was pretty amazing.

By: Carl Barron

Carl Barron — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:15:46 +0000

It’s all very well saying a ‘Waterless washing machine’ yet the reusable nylon polymer beads must surely need to be washed off, as the dirt must go somewhere.

There is also the fact that having nylon polymer beads knock the daylights out of your washing, will surely damage your cloths and make them wear out fast.

Signed Carl Barron Chairman of agpcuk