A toteable plastic bin works best if you have laundry in the building; if you’re traveling, a hamper that converts ... then roll it back once the clothes are cleaned and dried.

The best laundry baskets and hampers take some work out of a dreaded chore. We had cleaning experts weigh in on finding the ...

A billion kilograms of waste from plastic food containers — equivalent ... fibre manufacturers, clothing companies, and retailers. Ultra-fine polypropylene fibres are useful for manufacturing ...

Whether you’re a lingerie collector, Japanese denim nerd, or laundry procrastinator, you’ll need a reliable rack for clothing and ... your wall to a cute, plastic clip-covered octopus that ...

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it can be hard to connect that to the plastic ... Microfibres are even released into waterways when we wash our clothes in the washing machine.

That, for starters, it’s exactly because these clothes are so cheap that people buy them without restraint, and then we’re left with too many poorly made, often plastic, clothes in the world ...

Inside your refrigerator and pantry, plastic is everywhere. There’s plastic wrap, storage bags and bins, clamshell takeout containers, beverage bottles, and condiment tubs, of course.

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

Our planet is choking on plastics. Some of the worst offenders, which can take decades to degrade in landfills, are polypropylene—which is used for things such as food packaging and bumpers ...

In the form of bottles, tires, packaging and piping, millions of tons of plastic waste are dumped every year in the world's waterways, often ending up in the oceans. And their amount could almost ...