Aboard an aluminum skiff or one of her five kayaks, fourth-generation shrimper and fisherwoman Diane Wilson often plies the ...

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 ...

Tiny plastic pellets, also called "mermaid's tears", are shown washed ashore on the beaches of Brittany, France in January 2023. Lentil-sized and toxic, industrial plastic pellets known as "nurdles" – ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every once in a while, I come across something unusual from ASTM International. The latest example: A new guide for terms used to describe defects or abnormalities found in different types of polymer ...

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, ...

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 ...