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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- "Our washing machine just exploded. It blew up." That was Reggie Braswell after seeing damage in his garage and watching video from his security camera. "Glass all up about the ...

Despite the recall of nearly 3 million washing machines by Korean company Samsung, a rash of explosions continues. Over the weekend, yet another Samsung washer exploded, this time in Irving, Texas.

Samsung is offering repairs, refunds and replacements for about 2.8 million top-load washers after receiving hundreds of reports of machines vibrating excessively — in some cases, so much that the ...

There have been more than 730 reports of exploding machines, the CPSC said. — -- Samsung and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission are recalling 2.8 million of Samsung's top-loading washing ...

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Some of Samsung’s appliances were found to pose a fire risk, so it’s having consumers update them via either Wi-Fi or a special device that they can plug into the machine itself. Some of Samsung’s ...

Editors' note: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall of 34 top-load Samsung washing machines on November 4, 2016. Samsung's WA52J8700AP was one of the washers listed on the ...