Laundry is a fact of life—and so are the microfibers it leaves behind.

Experts say small changes at home can significantly reduce microplastic pollution. Here's our guide to lowering microplastics ...

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 ...

About 60% of garments around the world are made from oil, which then gets turned into fabrics like polyester, nylon yarn. But when they’re washed, these fabrics release tiny fibers, called microfibers ...

A single laundry load containing synthetic clothing can release thousands of plastic microfibers from nylon, acrylic and ...

One of the major sources of microplastic pollution in the San Francisco Bay comes from something you might not expect: our laundry. Turns out, our clothes shed thousands of fibers every time they’re ...

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Microfibers from our clothes are polluting the planet and our lungs, multiple research centers suggest. First reported by Sourcing Journal, researchers from Groningen University, the Netherlands ...

The laundry machine can clean your clothes ... and wash microfibers into waterways. If only there was a simple way to collect microfibers before they're flushed away. One solution: Cora Ball. This bit ...

If you've ever grabbed a cloth designed to clean your glasses or computer screen, it's likely you were using a microfiber product (and you've probably used them in a ton of other situations from car ...

The innovation of synthetic fleece has allowed many outdoor enthusiasts to hike with warmth and comfort. But what many of these fleece-wearing nature lovers don't know is that each wash of their ...

Tiny fragments of plastic in the ocean are consumed by sea anemones along with their food, and bleached anemones retain these microfibers longer than healthy ones, according to new research. The work ...