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I can’t figure out why people like them. They’re non-absorbent and don’t seem to clean anything very well. What am I missing?
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity  |
Same.
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| Foregoing Practicing to Post Minor Deity  |
I think they work well, but have heard they are not environment-friendly. They are soft enough to use safely on my piano’s satin finish, where formerly I had been advised to use only cheesecloth. Effective as dusters, especially sprayed with water.
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They work well once you get them wet for scrubbing up stubborn oily things you need to get clean. I used them at the horse barn all the time. And I use them in the laundry room sink where I clean a lot of my art studio stuff.
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Jodi| czarina Has Achieved Nirvana  |
We use them everywhere, all the time, for just about everything. I find them to be quite versatile.
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity |
This make me wonder if I'm buying the wrong kind???
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Hmmm.? Mine are very absorbent. I use them all the time for piano work - small ones from the grocery store(I think) and larger ones from Costco.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
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Minor Deity |
They are really bad for the environment. I prefer not to use them. ( Microfiber pollution in the earth system )
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Everything went sideways when people stopped using cloth diapers. Nothing worked better than those, especially old ones. Most of my cleaning rags are towels retired from service at beauty shops. We had a customer that supplied them, picked them up, washed them and brought them back. Every time we worked there I’d get a dozen or so of the ones too worn to send back out. I still have a big box of them. Should last the rest of my life.
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| czarina Has Achieved Nirvana |
we got ours at Costco.
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| czarina Has Achieved Nirvana |
we wash and re-use, never throw them out. so... ?
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| Minor Deity |
It's the washing of them that's so bad. Every time you wash a microfiber, millions of the miniscule fibers are released (to my knowledge, at the moment they can't be filtered out, they're too small). It's a huge cause of shoreline pollution and affects marine life.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
They don’t immediately suck up water. But you can get them to - and once they are wet, they are really useful. But I get the microfiber thing, think polar fleece has the same issues?
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They're working on ways to get microplastics and forever chemicals out of our water. Microplastics: https://phys.org/news/2024-04-...l-microplastics.html And my alma mater is dealing with forever chemicals: https://news.northwestern.edu/...y-simple-new-method/
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