The company behind some of Europe's leading home appliance brands has unveiled the world's first washing machine with a built-in microplastic filter. Arcelik, the parent company of Beko and Grundig, ...

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 ...

Ongoing, fish-inspired research from Germany's University of Bonn could soon make our washing machines more planet-friendly. Professor Alexander Blanke's lab work has been awarded more than $161,000 ...

An MP has issued a washing machine warning after claims microplastics are contaminating people’s brains, blood and testicles. Conservative MP Alberto Costa said all new washing machines should be ...

– 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 – ...

CLEANR Marketing Director Katie Dovan demonstrates the vortex filter to an attendee at the company's product launch on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. Case Western Reserve University is set to install filters ...

(MENAFN- PR Newswire) France broke ground in 2020 passing the first such law , which goes into effect January 1, 2025 . Meanwhile, legislators in the UK and European Union and in some of the largest ...

Campaigners have called on the British government to make it a legal requirement that all new washing machines are fitted with microplastic filters. In an open letter to environment secretary George ...

John Elliott MBE, founder and chairman of North East manufacturer Ebac, the UK’s only maker of washing machines, has written to Alberto Costa MP to support his Private Member’s Bill – Microplastic ...