The minuscule spheres, typically less than 5 millimeters in diameter, are the basic building blocks of nearly all plastic ...

Countless plastic beads are washing ashore in France, and officials are stumped as to how to deal with the environmental disaster. Reading time 3 minutes For the past year on the coast of France, the ...

Oil and gas companies make enough pellets each year to fill a stadium several times over. The oil industry has long known it has a pellet... Big Oil Evaded Regulation And Plastic Pellets Kept Spilling ...

Today, the Council adopted the regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets into the environment, following a provisional agreement with the European Parliament. The new regulation aims to ...

Bright blue pellets pooled along the edge of Pocono Creek on Monday, days after and miles away from the site of a tractor-trailer crash that spilled thousands of pounds of plastic into a nearby stream ...

Trillions of small plastic pellets known as nurdles have been escaping from petrochemical plants into waterways and oceans for decades. Only lately has serious action been taken to figure out what can ...

Tiny plastic pellets called nurdles are a major source of global pollution, littering waterways, harming ecosystems and threatening marine life. But plastic pellet pollution is preventable, according ...

The European Union has hashed out new regulations aimed at reducing the release of plastic pellets into the environment. Under the agreement reached by negotiators from the European Parliament and EU ...

COLUMBIA — South Carolina senators are considering legislation to crack down on companies that pollute the state's waters with tiny plastic pellets. A Senate Medical Affairs subcommittee voted 3-2 ...

LOWCOUNTRY, S.C. (WCIV) — Local community leaders are working to raise awareness of plastic pellet pollution, a problem that remains prevalent in the Charleston area. Advocates from the Public ...

Editor’s note: This is the second entry in a series examining the causes, impacts and solutions to plastic pollution in the Great Lakes. Read the first, third and fourth entries here. BENTON HARBOR, ...

At the base of the overturned train car, Jackie Medcalf scoops small plastic pellets from the muddy ground and deposits them in a mason jar. When it’s about halfway full, she caps the jar and places ...