For the 2nd year, volunteers counted microplastic beads in and around waterways to put a number on the microplastic problem.

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At first glance, the tiny plastic pellets appear relatively harmless. No bigger than a lentil, these "nurdles" are destined to be melted down to make everything from car bumpers to salad bowls. But ...

Legal action against a Columbia, SC area manufacturing plant could stop so-called nurdle pollution in the Congaree River, ...

Democrats in Washington have put a provision mandating tougher regulations on pellet discharge from plastic factories in the $715 billion fast-track surface transportation spending plan that the U.S.

When Tracey Read first saw the initial plastic pellets spill washed up on Hong Kong beaches, it had a familiar look. "The initial spill looked like snow on several beaches and in quite a few areas the ...

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 ...

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 ...

It isn't surprising that individual resin pellets are very tricky items to keep track of. Even companies following every recommendation of Operation Clean Sweep, doing their best to seal off any point ...

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, ...

This story is part of a joint investigation with NPR that includes the documentary Plastic Wars, which aired March 31, 2020, on PBS. Stream the film. Look on the side of a highway sometime and you ...