Your Clothes Could Soon Scrub Pollution Directly From The Air
Source: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-09/your-clothes-could-soon-scrub-pollution-directly-air

Your washing machine and dryer are both energy intensive machines, but soon your rinse cycle could start giving something back. A liquid laundry additive called "CatClo" (for "catalytic clothing") developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield and London College of Fashion in the UK could imbue clothing with titanium dioxice nanoparticles that scrub nitrogen oxides from the air and oxidize them in the fabric. On the next wash, these nitrogen oxides are simply washed away.
Via a press release from the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council:
The researchers say one person wearing clothes treated with CatClo--and it's worth noting clothes only need to be washed in the additive once, not with every wash--can remove 5 grams of nitrogen oxides from the air per day, which they equate to roughly the output of the average family vehicle. Not a bad haul for simply getting dressed in the morning.
Radiohead-scored, high-production-value promotional video below.
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[EPSRC]
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