Microfibre pollution from synthetic clothing is one of the biggest sources of plastic in the oceans. Every time you wash your clothes, garments will shed thin fibres that escape the filtration process ...

From the polar ice cap to the Mariana Trench 10 kilometres below the waves, synthetic microfibres spat out by household washing machines are polluting oceans everywhere. The world has woken up over ...

Millions of tonnes of tiny microplastics have been shed from clothing into the environment over the past seven decades or so, according to an analysis of the impact of clothes washing. Between 1950 ...