WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The good and bad when it comes to buying cheap clothing - it’s great on the budget, but not so great on the environment. There are people looking at this trend called “fast ...

Now that spring is here, people are combing through their closets to decide what clothes to keep or toss aside. However, one preferred option to throwing away clothes is selling or buying secondhand ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Last month, Democratic New York City Council Member James Gennaro introduced a bill that would change the way ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The two top sources of plastic pollution may surprise you. (Getty) (Alistair Berg via Getty Images) The world is in a "plastics ...

What happens when you mix science and fashion? Aside from some bad sweaters and pocket protectors, you get clothing that is coated in nanoparticles designed to eat pollution. First introduced in March ...

Microfibers from our clothes are polluting the planet and our lungs, multiple research centers suggest. First reported by Sourcing Journal, researchers from Groningen University, the Netherlands ...

Laundry machines at the Ocean Wise Plastics Lab in Vancouver, Canada, in 2019 (CNW Group/Ocean Wise via Courthouse News) PARIS (AFP) — Households in Europe and North America are flooding the oceans ...

Microfibre pollution from synthetic clothing is one of the biggest sources of plastic in the oceans. Every time you wash your clothes, garments will shed thin fibres that escape the filtration process ...

Pollution released from our textiles is smaller and more irregular in shape than previously thought, according to new research led by The University of Manchester. In a study published in Scientific ...

CARY, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New consumer research from Cotton Incorporated finds that half of adults surveyed are familiar with microplastic pollution, and fewer are taking action to minimize ...

‘Sustainable fashion’ often gets an eye-roll. It’s overused, hard to define, and often leaves us with more questions than answers. While there are a number of sustainable brands genuinely paving the ...