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 ...

Indesit, perhaps better known in the UK for its Hotpoint product line, has been working with the government-funded Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and Axion Recycling to find ways that waste ...

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 ...

A single laundry load containing synthetic clothing can release thousands of plastic microfibers from nylon, acrylic and polyester materials. Lab testing of an SA-made washing machine filter at ...

"During food intake, the water flows through the permeable funnel wall, is filtered, and the particle-free water is then ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did you know that every time you do your washing you could be contributing to the world's plastic problem? Take a look at your clothes labels. If they contain some sort of man-made fibres then studies ...