When one thinks of Plastic Free July, the challenge to avoid all manner of plastic bottles, cups and containers likely comes to mind. To be sure, that’s a central concern of the global project, which ...

176,500 metric tons of synthetic microfibers--chiefly polyester and nylon--are released every year onto terrestrial environments across the globe, according to a new study in the open access journal ...

Luke Haverhals wants to change how yoga pants are made. Most performance fabrics used in athletic clothing, like Spandex, are made from synthetic fibers—plastic, essentially. Those plastics are ...

Microplastic fibers discovered in samples (air, seawater, sediment and sea-ice) from the last remaining pristine environment on Earth. As nations meet in Uruguay to negotiate a new Global Plastics ...

Fashion remains heavily dependent on plastic to make clothing, according to a report released last week by the nonprofit Changing Markets Foundation. As customers and policymakers begin to more ...

Bottles and bags, food wrappers and straws. Piping, packaging, toys and trays. Plastic is everywhere — and yet some people may be surprised at how much they actually wear. A typical closet is loaded ...

If you submerge a piece of polyester fabric into seawater, it will still be largely intact more than 200 days later. But if you submerge a swatch of wood-based fabric, like textile company Lenzing’s ...

The hazy days of summer are here and so is Plastic Free July. The global movement is a key initiative of the Plastic Free Foundation, whose vision is to see "a world free of plastic waste." For those ...

As nations meet in Uruguay to negotiate a new Global Plastics Treaty, marine and forensic scientists publish new results this week that reveal the discovery of synthetic plastic fibres in air, ...