Some products are necessarily single use, regardless of what others will say. Medical gloves, especially during surgery, need to be disposable and easily changed to accommodate the doctors’ needs during the procedure while protecting the patient from infections. Other products like eating utensils and straws have proven that multi-use options work well enough where you don’t necessarily need disposable options. Of course that is only true if you’re not in an environment where cleaning between uses isn’t possible, where a source of water or wipes are completely unavailable. Unfortunately, you can’t make everything multi-use when you try to reduce pollution across the board. I see companies trying to create biodegradable polymers that resemble plastic and that seems to be a huge step in the right direction. Hopefully biodegradable polymers can be found for things like air conditioner and furnace filters. They need to be replaced every four to six weeks in dusty environments like mine, while others can get by waiting up to three months in between changes. I have seen “washable” or “reusable” air conditioner filters being recommended by all sorts of people, but they don’t realize the issues related to these products. To clean these filters, it requires getting them wet and it’s next to impossible to completely dry one out to prevent fungal growth as they’re so dense and thick that they’re difficult to dry by nature. On top of that, they’re surprisingly bad at filtering things as large as dust particles, allowing your evaporator coil to get constant exposure to dirt, dust, pollen, microbial content, and anything else in your indoor air. Just stick with high quality disposable air conditioner filters.
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