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CHICAGO (WLS) -- There's a dirty little secret lurking in your laundry. A single load of laundry sends 15 million microfibers through our waterways. Microfibers are tiny little strands of plastic that ...

Water filter machines may generate electricity in the future thanks to a new invention by researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology. The research team created a cutting-edge ...

– New nature-inspired filters consistently outperform the market in manufacturer-testing, are small enough to integrate without major changes, enable microplastics capture in under 30 seconds a week – ...

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you have a top-loading washing machine, you are among the majority of Americans who own this type of appliance over a front-loading washing ...