Literally, thousands upon thousands of liters of water mixed with detergents are washed into our waterways every single day.  While these detergents may well be effective in doing what they promise, their grease-fighting, stain-lifting power come at a cost.  It is incredibly damaging to the environment, especially aquatic life.

Phosphate nutrient loading is one of the biggest issues created by laundry detergents getting into our waterways. 

Phosphate detergents are known to create large-scale algal blooms (eutrophication) which then take up the

majority of the oxygen necessary for aquatic life to survive.  This lack of oxygen causes aquatic life to die

slowly of suffocation.  Suffering needlessly. When oxygen depletion continues over an extended period of time, entire aquatic ecosystems begin to die off.