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

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 ...

Tiny plastic beads, commonly called nurdles, have polluted waterways across the country, including in the Charleston and Columbia areas of South Carolina, environmentalists say. File photo/The State ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

French beaches, once pristine havens for tourists and locals alike, are now battling an invisible enemy. While littering remains a persistent issue, a more insidious form of pollution has taken center ...

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 ...

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, ...