Ariella Gintzler is a senior editor at Outside. The grapefruit-size ball, made out of recycled plastic, is designed to be tossed into the washing machine with your clothes. Tiny arms with circular ...

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 ...

Eight years ago, Patagonia started to study a little-known environmental problem: With every load of laundry, thousands (even millions) of microfibers, each less than 5 millimeters long, wash down the ...

washing machine. (Photo by: Newscast/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The U.K. climate tech company Matter has joined forces with Europe’s leading washing machine manufacturer to launch a ...