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

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 ...

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 ...

H.R. 7634 has been introduced into the United States House of Representatives which is titled: Plastic Pellet Free Waters Act (“Act”). The Act requires that the United States Environmental Protection ...

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 ...

Today, the Council and the European Parliament provisionally agreed on a regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets – the industrial raw materials used to make plastic products – into the ...

This Crain’s Forum on the emerging threat of microplastics pollution in the Great Lakes is a joint project of the newsrooms of Crain’s Chicago Business and Crain's Detroit Business. McDonald's Corp.

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 ...

Look on the side of a highway sometime and you might see them. Or along the railroad tracks or a stream. Maybe even between your toes at the beach. Tiny pearl-shaped pieces of plastic, known as ...

Look on the side of a highway sometime and you might see them. Or along the railroad tracks or a stream. Maybe even between your toes at the beach. Tiny pearl-shaped pieces of plastic, known as ...