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What impact do laundry detergents made from plant-based ingredients have on aquatic ecosystems?


Detergents with plant-based ingredients can reduce reliance on certain petroleum-derived ingredients, but environmental impact is rarely a simple story. Increasingly, consumers are looking beyond marketing claims and asking tougher questions about ingredients like PVOH and whether everything that goes down the drain truly disappears from the ecosystem.