A newly developed spray-on fabric coating could allow clothes to be cleaned using only water, reducing water and detergent needs.

A person adds or removes clothes from a front-loading laundry machine. Washing clothes (shown) consumes a lot of water, energy, and detergent. A new textile coating may reduce this consumption. Credit ...

A team of University of Toronto Engineering researchers, led by Professor Kevin Golovin, have designed a solution to reduce the amount of microplastic fibres that are shed when clothes made of ...