Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A snapshot of "nurdles" collected from Galveston, Texas, shorelines shows the condition of these plastics as they weather in the ...

I-196, tiny white plastic pellets known as "nurdles" are still scattered along the Kalamazoo River corridor near Saugatuck. A ...

NEW YORK (CBSNEWS.COM) - 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 ...

A study points to the risk of fragments remaining in the geological cycle. Laboratory analyses mainly identified polyethylene and polypropylene.

In a blow to local wildlife and coastal communities, countless tiny plastic pellets are littering the waters and beaches along Spain’s northern coast after containers filled with the stuff fell off a ...

Entering 2024, North American prices for post-industrial polypropylene have continued to increase, while post-industrial polycarbonate regrind and pellets have decreased slightly. Recycled PP had seen ...

Britain has banned everything from plastic straws to cutlery, but one type of plastic pollution keeps washing up and shows no ...

Spanish state prosecutors are investigating the presence of numerous small plastic pellets along the northwest coastline, spilled from a transport ship. There are fears that the pellets may have toxic ...

Environmental groups in South Carolina say the state and a company in charge of shipping plastic pellets isn’t doing enough to stop them from going into the harbor and showing up on the beaches around ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina lawmakers are considering legislation to better regulate companies polluting the state’s waters with tiny plastic pellets. A Senate subcommittee advanced a bill ...