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

A pollution incident where millions of plastic pellets were washed up along the Sussex and Kent coast has been upgraded, ...

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 ...

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.

SCHAGHTICOKE, N.Y. (WRGB) — More than two weeks after a train derailed in Valley Falls, the clean up isn’t over. Plastic pellets that spilled into the Hoosic River from one of the derailed cars are ...

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 ...

A company that transports plastic pellets agreed to pay $1 million to settle a pollution lawsuit, almost two years after clusters of the tiny rice-sized nuggets were spotted on Charleston-area beaches ...

It’s been more than two weeks since a cargo ship in New Orleans spilled millions – possibly billions – of tiny plastic pellets into the Mississippi River, but state and federal agencies have issued no ...

The real winners of the next decade are positioning themselves—not as waste companies or recyclers—but as premium suppliers ...

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 ...

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, ...

Plastics are everywhere — from grocery store bags to water bottle packs. Each year, thousands of tons of plastic materials are made from tiny pellets. Testing pellets for defects is difficult, ...