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

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 ...

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 Interest Group and the Charleston ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UNC-Chapel Hill is asking the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality to update its air permit to allow it to burn recycled paper-and-plastic pellets at its Cogeneration power plant on Cameron Avenue ...

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 ...