Environmental groups said tiny plastic pellets are increasingly showing up in U.S. waterways, threatening wildlife and human health. The pellets, also known as nurdles, are about the size of a lentil ...

Retailers concerned by the ever-growing scourge of marine plastic pollution can, at long last, take practical action to tackle an entirely preventable form of plastic pollution within their supply ...

The pollution of these pellets, called nurdles, stretches at least 26 miles downstream, Riverkeeper alleges in the suit, including the stretch where the river flows past Congaree National Park, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An employee holds plastic pellets in a production area of a company. The European Union has hashed out new regulations aimed at ...

The presence of small plastic pellets on the beaches of Donostia and Orio has drawn attention to a little-studied source of pollution: leakage of industrial microplastics that reach the sea through ...

This spring, citizen scientists across the country and the globe participated in the International Plastic Pellet Count, collecting small, usually round so-called “nurdles” on the shores of their ...

As WCIV reported,, that discovery could lead to a federal lawsuit against four companies on the Cooper River, which critics say have contributed to years of preventable plastic contamination in one of ...

Volunteers cleaning up millions of plastic pellets which have washed up on a Sussex beach say it is "the worst single incident" they have encountered. The pellets, known as biobeads, were washed ...

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 most recent edition of the China Replas 2018 e-newsletter contains four market updates: Three of them focus on resistance to plastic scrap imports in Southeast Asian nations, while the fourth ...

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, ...