"If these fibers impair their growth, other food plants may struggle, too." New study exposes troubling link between ...

A new study from the University at Buffalo examines this issue, with findings showing that one cigarette filter can release ...

Researchers observed that the plants grown with microplastics were 11 percent less likely to emerge from the soil, were smaller in size and were several days slower to produce flowers or ripen. The ...

A single load of laundry can release several million microfibers. Here’s a few tips to keep your clothes from shedding this type of pollution. The most common microplastics in the environment are ...

Laundry is a fact of life—and so are the microfibers it leaves behind.

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 ...

A recent study found that a single pair of used blue jeans can release, on average, 56,000 microfibers per wash. DigiPub / Getty Images Just one pair of blue jeans sheds a staggering 56,000 ...

U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley has introduced legislation focused on addressing microfiber pollution from clothing. The Fighting Fibers Act of 2024 would push to ensure washing machines include microfiber ...

Throw a polyester sweater in the washing machine and it’ll come out nice and clean, but also not quite its whole self. As it rinses, millions of synthetic fibers will shake loose and wash out with the ...

A significant percentage of waterborne microplastic pollution takes the form of synthetic microfibers, which are shed by our clothes as they're being washed. A new device known as Gulp lets homeowners ...

A new study has revealed that sunlight can transform common synthetic fabrics into tiny plastic fibers that pollute coastal oceans. The findings shed light on how clothing and household textiles ...

The Ocean Viking rescue ship sails off the coast of the island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea on September 15, 2019, with in foreground the "Porta di Lampedusa", known as "The door of Europe", ...