Launched in 2017, the Guppyfriend Washing Bag takes aim at reducing microplastic fiber pollution in home laundry care. Woven from a single continuous thread of untreated and undyed polyester, the ...

Chiana Dickson, content editor on Solved here at Homes & Gardens agrees. ‘I rarely have plastic bags in my home, but when I do I tend to reuse them as trash bag liners – especially the larger ...

Some Dollar Tree stores have a few aisles with items priced higher than $1.25, but there's no need to visit those aisles for this project. For the laundry bag, the Essentials Jumbo Mesh Laundry ...

A previous version of this article misstated the date that a plastic bag charge went into effect in Fairfax and Arlington counties and in the city of Alexandria. The charge went into effect in ...

More affordable laundry bags or balls can also reduce microfiber shedding, though research shows performance can vary. A 2020 study of six devices found that the XFiltra filter performed the best ...

The ban also does not apply to plastic bags provided by pharmacies to carry prescription drugs; bags for dry cleaning or laundry from a laundromat or bags used for ice machines. How long with the ban ...

Plastic bags have a certain nostalgia in some Asian-American communities, both for their designs and as symbols of the thriftiness of reuse. As the bags are now being phased out due to ...

Some are laundry bags made of woven monofilament, a single-polyamide filament that does not disintegrate into fibers. Laundry is washed while enclosed in the bag, which traps microfibers that the ...

Plastic pollution is a global environmental issue that needs no introduction — the very words conjure images of plastic bags washed up along shorelines and floating lagoons of plastic debris ...