{"id":235199,"date":"2026-04-14T22:23:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/fluorescent-technique-reveals-hidden-scale-of-microfiber-pollution-from-our-clothes"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:23:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:23:56","slug":"fluorescent-technique-reveals-hidden-scale-of-microfiber-pollution-from-our-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/fluorescent-technique-reveals-hidden-scale-of-microfiber-pollution-from-our-clothes","title":{"rendered":"Fluorescent technique reveals hidden scale of microfiber pollution from our clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fluorescent-technique-reveals-hidden-scale-of-microfiber-pollution-from-our-clothes3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pollution released from our textiles is smaller and more irregular in shape than previously thought, according to new research led by The University of Manchester. In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-27627-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Scientific Reports<\/i>, Manchester researchers\u2014in collaboration with researchers from the University of East Anglia and Manchester Metropolitan University\u2014have developed a new fluorescence-based method that dramatically improves the detection of microfibers released from textiles during washing and wear.<\/p>\n<p>The findings suggest that conventional testing methods may have been missing a large proportion of the smallest fiber fragments, the particles most likely to persist in the environment and enter living organisms.<\/p>\n<p>Every time clothes are worn or washed, microscopic fibers shed from fabrics and enter water, air and soil. Until now, accurately measuring the smallest of these fibers has been extremely difficult, limiting our understanding of their true environmental impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pollution released from our textiles is smaller and more irregular in shape than previously thought, according to new research led by The University of Manchester. In a study published in Scientific Reports, Manchester researchers\u2014in collaboration with researchers from the University of East Anglia and Manchester Metropolitan University\u2014have developed a new fluorescence-based method that dramatically improves [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}