Nature may hold the key to cleaning the dirty water from our washing machines. Researchers have turned to fish, whose filtration systems have been perfected over millions of years, to design a simple ...

Early trials suggest that borrowing from filter-feeding fish anatomy could help curb plastic pollution upstream.

Your laundry is shedding more than just lint. Washing machine wastewater is one of the top sources of microplastics, with a single unit in a four-person household producing up to 500 grams a year as ...

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 ...

"Are we going to just do another research project?" Researchers search for solution to harmful threat lurking in household ...

Microplastics are all around us. The tiny particles are smaller than a fingernail. Research is still in its early phase. Scientists are trying to determine what impact these particles have on humans ...