In 10 minutes, volunteers collected nearly 700 nurdles at Rotary Park in Carlsbad earlier this month. Nurdles are tiny, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nurdles — popcorn-sized pellets of the raw material to make plastic — are escaping by the billions into Texas waterways, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An employee holds plastic pellets in a production area of a company. The European Union has hashed out new regulations aimed at ...

Plastic beads that can be hazardous to fish and other aquatic life are being found in the Congaree River near South ...

EU cracks down on plastic pellet pollution despite industry exemptions New EU regulations could cut plastic pellet pollution by 74%, but exemptions for smaller companies and reliance on self-reporting ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — It’s the twist to plastic pollution—plastic pellets, or nurdles, have been washing up in Charleston waterways. Some local groups are taking legal action to stop it. On Monday ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA — South Carolina senators are considering legislation to crack down on companies that pollute the state's waters with tiny plastic pellets. A Senate Medical Affairs subcommittee voted 3-2 ...

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 ...