Detergents may begin their journey by cleaning our clothes, but they end up contaminating the environment, flowing into ...

A newly developed spray-on fabric coating could allow clothes to be cleaned using only water, reducing water and detergent ...

A person adds or removes clothes from a front-loading laundry machine. Washing clothes (shown) consumes a lot of water, ...

A team of University of Toronto Engineering researchers, led by Professor Kevin Golovin, have designed a solution to reduce the amount of microplastic fibres that are shed when clothes made of ...

Even if soy sauce, ketchup, or engine oil gets on a white shirt, rinsing with water alone makes it clean. That is because the fabric has a self-cleaning coating that blocks stains. With shorter wash ...