Hand washing is recommended for some types of clothes, such as lingerie, unstructured wool items, cashmere sweaters, and any fabrics that can be damaged by too much agitation. However, the pile of ...

Can you buy your way to a greener life? Probably not, but there’s no shortage of products that promise to reduce your carbon footprint and generally make your life more environmentally friendly. In a ...

Between 6,500 and 87,000 tonnes of microfibres are shed during domestic laundering every year in the UK. Many of these minuscule fibres end up in rivers and oceans, with devastating consequences for ...

Hand-operated washing machines used in Gaza are being redeveloped to make them easier and cheaper to make so they can help more people. The Washing Machine Project was set up in 2018 with its manually ...