A new white paper is urging the European Commission to mandate the installation of filters in new washing machines as the only “effective, near-term solution” to reducing the release of microfibers ...

washing machine. (Photo by: Newscast/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The U.K. climate tech company Matter has joined forces with Europe’s leading washing machine manufacturer to launch a ...

Eight years ago, Patagonia started to study a little-known environmental problem: With every load of laundry, thousands (even millions) of microfibers, each less than 5 millimeters long, wash down the ...

Survey reveals widespread concern, willingness to pay more for a built-in solution. In 2014 an ecologist named Mark Browne realized that plastic microfibers, shed from synthetic clothing, were ...

Whether you know it or not, you’re polluting the ocean. Each time you wash clothes made with synthetic materials—think polyester, rayon, nylon, and the like—as many as 1,900 tiny microfibers break off ...