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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost 200 species of bacteria colonize microfibers in the Mediterranean Sea, including one that causes food poisoning in humans, according to a new study led by Maria Luiza Pedrotti of Sorbonne ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There's a dirty little secret lurking in your laundry. A single load of laundry sends 15 million microfibers through our waterways. Microfibers are tiny little strands of plastic that ...

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 ...

Dryers are bigger culprits than washers when it comes to this kind of pollution. There has been a great deal of talk in recent years about the link between washing machines and microfiber pollution.