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 satisfied, and anything else in your indoor air
Some products are necessarily single use, regardless of what others will say. Medical gloves, especially while in surgery, need to be disposable and honestly changed to accommodate the nurses’ needs while in the procedure while protecting the patient from infections. Other products love eating utensils and straws have proven that multi-use options toil 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 large step in the right direction. Hopefully biodegradable polymers can be found for things love a/c and furnace filters. They need to be updated every 4 to 6 weeks in dusty environments love mine, while others can get by waiting up to 3 weeks in between swings. I have seen “washable” or “reUnited Statesble” a/c filters being suggested by all sorts of people, but they don’t realize the troubles related to these products. To clean these filters, it requires getting them wet and it’s next to impossible to completely dry 1 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 satisfied, and anything else in your indoor air. Just stick with high quality disposable a/c filters.