Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small retrofit device – now sold through some of the major washing machine brands – could keep millions of tonnes of plastic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new white paper is urging the European Commission to mandate the installation of filters in new washing machines as the only ...

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 ...

Campaigners have called on the British government to make it a legal requirement that all new washing machines are fitted with microplastic filters. In an open letter to environment secretary George ...

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Every time you do laundry, your clothes shed microplastics. A Bristol startup has built a filter to stop them. View on ...