Matter Industries founder Adam Root has developed a filter to trap microfibres at home and on an industrial scale. But is it just a drop in the ocean?

CLEANR Marketing Director Katie Dovan demonstrates the vortex filter to an attendee at the company's product launch on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. Case Western Reserve University is set to install filters ...

Studies detail how everyday loads of laundry, especially those filled with synthetic fabrics like nylon and polyester, shed up to 700,000 microplastic fibers per wash. Most washing machines lack a ...

Every load of laundry sends tiny plastic fibers down the drain. These fragments, shed from synthetic fabrics, slip through most wastewater filters and spread through rivers, farmland, and food. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laundry washwater is a major source of microplastic fibers that can end up in water and soil. Venca-Stastny/iStock via Getty ...

If you’ve been wondering how to avoid microplastics in everyday life, your laundry room is a surprisingly important place to start. Every time synthetic clothes like polyester, nylon and fleece go ...

Someone gave my 3-year-old son a blanket as a gift. It wasn't the sort of thing I would normally buy - snow-white faux fur is sub-ideal for toddler purposes - but I hate to let things go to waste. I ...

Tests show a new washing machine filter cuts polyester microfibres and captures particles down to 20 microns, helping keep plastics out of waterways. (Nanowerk News) A single laundry load containing ...

CLEVELAND — In the waters of Lake Erie is a small, but abundant threat. Microplastics, plastic particles under 5 millimeters in size. A major source? Doing the laundry. "Really that was our mission ...

From tariff skirmishes that echo McKinley’s Gilded Age to microscopic fibers swirling from our washing machines, today’s challenges reveal how politics and science are inseparably entwined. Engineers ...