When you buy new clothes, you’re likely to be excited to wear them right away. But before you slip on that new shirt or dress ...

Consumer Reports’ Home & Trends writer Jodhaira Rodriguez says you should wash all new clothing purchases, including your delicates, like underwear.

How to Hand-Wash Clothes This step-by-step guide will work for most garments, including dresses, although they can be more cumbersome to handle. Save time by washing like items together, whether ...

Use cold water for brights and delicates to prevent fading and shrinkage, and warmer temps for towels, sheets, and heavily soiled clothes to help break down oils and kill germs, says Pozniak. Delicate ...

Rachael Z. Miller, founder of the Vermont-based Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean, conducts a tape test on various clothing items to compare how much each material sheds microfibers on Thursday ...

Your clothes are shedding bits of plastic. Here’s what people are doing about it this Earth Day Even natural fabrics shed fibers and have chemicals that can leach into the environment ...

How to Hand-Wash Clothes This step-by-step guide will work for most garments, including dresses, although they can be more cumbersome to handle. Save time by washing like items together, whether ...

Piping, packaging, toys and trays. Plastic is everywhere -- and yet some people may be surprised at how much they actually wear. Bottles ... The easiest solution is to wash clothes less often, ...

Piping, packaging, toys and trays. Plastic is everywhere -- and yet some people may be surprised at how much they actually wear. Bottles ... The easiest solution is to wash clothes less often, ...

What to do? Start by changing habits. The easiest solution is to wash clothes less often, making for less of the friction that breaks fibers apart, said Anja Brandon, director of plastics policy ...

Here’s what people are doing about it this Earth Day. ... Simple changes like washing clothes less and using cold water instead of hot can help reduce the shedding of fibers.

Here’s what people are doing about it this Earth Day. The Associated Press. April 22, 2025, 7:02 AM. Share This: ... The easiest solution is to wash clothes less often, ...