TRSA recently led the effort to kill AB-129, legislation introduced by California Assemblymember Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica), just before it was to be heard by the Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee in the California Assembly.

If enacted, this measure would have forced ALL industrial/commercial laundries in the Golden State to install filtration devices that would remove 100% of all microfibers from a processing plant’s waste stream. While the technology does exist, the minimum cost of the equipment alone would be in the $250,000 range according to manufacturers of the equipment. That does not take into account the ancillary equipment ...