Plastic is everywhere — and yet some people may be surprised at how much they actually wear. A typical closet is loaded with ...

Microplastics like microfibers and microbeads escape waste-water systems. They can carry harmful chemicals into nature.

Cold-water washing reduces wear and tear on clothes, too, which helps them last longer. The benefits go beyond longevity, though. Keeping clothing intact means fewer synthetic microfibers released ...

Tiny synthetic particles, released from clothes during washing, are polluting rivers ... was the first to measure the levels of microfibers in wastewater from Dhobi Ghats and similar commercial ...

In any given week, around 840 million washing machines soak ... and direct environmental impacts from the shedding of microfibers. The rise of fast fashion in recent decades has popularized ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warns that clothes made with synthetic fibers ... showed that top-load washing machines produced significantly more microfibers than front-loading ...

Rachael Z. Miller, founder of the Vermont-based Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean, tosses a Cora Ball, a laundry ball that ...