When you wash your synthetic clothes, they shed microfibers. Once the clothes are clean, most of those tiny fibers are on their way to your local waterway unless you have a filter on your washing ...

Design-led start up Planet Care has launched version 2.0 of its microfibre-catching washing machine filter, radically overhauling its initial design by prioritising user experience and circular ...

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 ...

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 ...

European Union policymakers are watching their wash — especially the impact of shedded microfibers. A white paper released Monday by nonprofits A Plastic Planet and 5 Gyres Institute, as well as ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Some environmental causes grab our attention; others go ignored. Many of us are aware of the way microplastics ...