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04/15/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Make your laundry cleaner for the environment: Researchers designing ways to treat wastewater from washing machines

You can’t see silver nanoparticles in your clothes – not even with a microscope – but rest assured these tiny particles are present in many of your underwear, towels, socks, and other garments. Ranging in diameter from 1 to 100 nanometers, they are added to give clothes anti-odor and anti-bacterial properties. In fact, a quarter […]

08/17/2017 / By Kristine Payne

Seven dangerous ingredients found in laundry detergents that could be harming you and the environment

Laundry detergents are some of the most common and widely-used household products today. We need these to clean our clothes, and there are dozens of readily available brands in groceries and supermarkets. But despite their importance in our daily lives, laundry detergents are hurting us more than we realize. What gets put into these products […]

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