This book examines the critical issue of environmental pollutants produced by the textiles industry.

1. Introduction to textile pollution Part 1: Environmental Problems 2. Microfibre methodologies for the field and laboratory. 3. Animals and microplastics: ingestion, transport, breakdown, and trophic transfer 4. Clothes encounters of the microfibre kind: the effects of natural and synthetic textiles on organisms. 5. Toxic chemicals in textiles and the role of microplastic fibres as a source and vector for chemicals to the environment Part 2: Textile Solutions 6. Microfibre shedding from textiles during laundering: different quantification methods but common findings 7. Wastewater treatment approaches to remove microplastics: microfibres incidence and fate 8. Degradation of fibrous microplastics in the marine environment 9. Sourcing and re-sourcing end-of-use textiles 10. Innovative approaches to mitigate microfibre pollution 11. Policies and perspectives on regulating microplastic fibre pollution 12. Summary