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 ...

A leading manufacturer of household appliances has taken the first steps towards making its machinery out of recycled materials. Indesit, perhaps better known in the UK for its Hotpoint product line, ...

Every time we wash our clothes, tiny plastic fibers are released into the water. These fibers come mainly from synthetic ...

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

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

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

Nature may hold the key to cleaning the dirty water from our washing machines. Researchers have turned to fish, whose filtration systems have been perfected over millions of years, to design a simple ...

Washing machines release massive amounts of microplastics into the environment, mostly from worn clothing fibers. Researchers ...

Huge numbers of tiny plastic fibres are released into the environment each time we wash clothes made from artificial fabrics, a study has found. More than 700,000 microscopic fibres could be released ...

Ecover, the ecological cleaning product company, has encouraged UK shoppers to consider the environmental impact of continuously purchasing washing-up liquid in plastic bottles. Washing up liquid is ...

Wastewater from washing machines is considered a major source of microplastics—tiny plastic particles that are suspected of harming human and animal health. Researchers at the University of Bonn have ...

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 ...