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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Large quantities of small plastic pellets have washed up on an East Sussex coastline causing a pollution incident, a council has said. The pellets, commonly known as biobeads, have come ashore in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...