According to Smol, households in the UK get through over 110m of plastic laundry containers per year, which ends up in landfill or incinerated. To combat this, the cleaning band is hoping to entice ...

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 ...

The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) and Wildlife and Countryside Link want all washing machines in the UK to be installed with plastic microfibre filters. The groups have also called for the ...

Nature may hold the key to cleaning the dirty water from our washing machines. Researchers have turned to fish, whose ...

Wastewater from household laundry has become a growing focus for scientists studying plastic pollution. Each wash releases ...

Tests show a new washing machine filter cuts polyester microfibres and captures particles down to 20 microns, helping keep ...

Tiny plastic particles are polluting our oceans, where they can stay for centuries, harming sea life and making their way into the human food chain. These microplastics – fragments of plastic smaller ...

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

Plastic banknotes which can survive a hot 90-degree washing machine cycle could arrive in Britain within three years, the Bank of England said yesterday. In a break with tradition, the Bank is ...

The Bank of England will unveil the final design of its new £5 note this week. The note will be plastic, which is supposed to be more durable than paper notes. The BBC's Kevin Peachey put plastic and ...