No one likes when their favorite clothes develop holes or unravel after many laundry cycles. But what happens to the fragments of fabric and stitching that come off? Although it's known that washing ...

Microplastics are turning up everywhere, from remote mountain tops to deep ocean trenches. They also are in many animals, including humans. The most common microplastics in the environment are ...

But while clothing is the “second-most discarded item of plastic after food packaging,” according to Lisa Erdle, manager of research and innovation at the 5 Gyres Institute, a California-based ...

A new analysis has found that tumble drying a load of laundry released microfibers into the air at a level comparable to the amount of microfibers released down the drain during machine washing of the ...

Laundry is a fact of life—and so are the microfibers it leaves behind. Washing machines are a major source of the ubiquitous fibers, which come from both synthetic and natural fabrics. Commercial ...

New research led by the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ) and Queen Mary University of London, could redefine how we interact with ...

U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley has introduced legislation focused on addressing microfiber pollution from clothing. The Fighting Fibers Act of 2024 would push to ensure washing machines include microfiber ...