May 20, 2024
MARELLA CRUISES LAUNCHES MICROPLASTIC FILTER INITIATIVE
TUI UK&I
20 May 2024: Marella Cruises and Cleaner Seas Group are launching a six-month trial in microplastic capture aboard the Marella Explorer.
Marella Cruises has installed two INDIKON filters onto the Marella Explorer ship’s crew laundry system for the trial to prevent affecting delicate ecosystems and marine life from plastic microfibres.
The INDIKON is a washing machine filter, engineered by Cleaner Seas Group, that can be fitted to existing washing machines for microplastic capture from the machine’s water waste. By trialling the filters on the ship, the partnership will take on the biggest ocean microplastic polluter: microfibres from laundry wastewater[1] by working with the University of Surrey to monitor and measure the microplastics captured on board the ship. Through the trial, Cleaner Seas Group will adapt any filter technology based on the University of Surrey’s findings from the trial and provide long term filter solutions in microplastic capture.
Marella Cruises will review the results of the six-month trial before rolling out the INDIKON filters across the entire fleet of ships; Marella Discovery, Marella Discovery 2, Marella Explorer, Marella Explorer 2 and the newest ship to the fleet, Marella Voyager.
Marella Cruises has installed two INDIKON filters onto the Marella Explorer ship’s crew laundry system for the trial to prevent affecting delicate ecosystems and marine life from plastic microfibres.
The INDIKON is a washing machine filter, engineered by Cleaner Seas Group, that can be fitted to existing washing machines for microplastic capture from the machine’s water waste. By trialling the filters on the ship, the partnership will take on the biggest ocean microplastic polluter: microfibres from laundry wastewater[1] by working with the University of Surrey to monitor and measure the microplastics captured on board the ship. Through the trial, Cleaner Seas Group will adapt any filter technology based on the University of Surrey’s findings from the trial and provide long term filter solutions in microplastic capture.
Marella Cruises will review the results of the six-month trial before rolling out the INDIKON filters across the entire fleet of ships; Marella Discovery, Marella Discovery 2, Marella Explorer, Marella Explorer 2 and the newest ship to the fleet, Marella Voyager.