The group Georgian Bay Forever started a pilot project in Parry Sound in 2018 looking for plastic micro fibres in washing machines. The small micro fibres come from the clothes people wear and the ...

When water gets pushed out through the filter at the end of the cycle, 90% of microplastic fibers get caught in the filter and don't make it out of the machines.

But there's a new washing machine that cleans clothes with 80 percent less water than most washers. It uses less detergent. And in the end, the clothes come out cleaner.

A study by the University of California has found that up to two grams of these fibres are released into the environment every time a fleece goes through the washing machine.

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 ...

Xeros When the beads have served their duty in the wash, they can get turned into plastic for other uses, such as car parts. Xeros estimates that if everyone had switched their ordinary washing ...

At the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Samsung announced a partnership with Patagonia that resulted in innovations to massively reduce the amount of microplastic that sheds during cleaning ...