A washing machine to the right side of the image with pink and green bottled liquids in front of it - Cris Cantón/Getty Images Washing machines are a pretty important part of daily life. There is ...

Eight years ago, Patagonia started to study a little-known environmental problem: With every load of laundry, thousands (even millions) of microfibers, each less than 5 millimeters long, wash down the ...