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 ...

Plastic pellets are tiny, white, round objects — about the size of a grain of rice — fabricated at plastic factories. They ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Huge numbers of tiny plastic pellets have been washing up on the beaches of Galicia in Spain, much to the dismay of ...

French beaches, once pristine havens for tourists and locals alike, are now battling an invisible enemy. While littering remains a persistent issue, a more insidious form of pollution has taken center ...

Nurdles are everywhere. Never heard of them? They are the raw form of plastic resin that’s melted and molded into everything from soda bottles to clothing fabrics, from food packaging to artificial ...

Plastic pellets were found in turtle nests on Trindade Island, in the South Atlantic, more than one thousand kilometers off the coast of the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. The discovery, published ...

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 ...

Researchers may have found a realistic alternative to plastic. The alternative comes in the form of a newly developed "bioplastic" pellet, which could prove to be more sustainable than the current ...

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 ...

SAUGATUCK, MI — The white plastic pellets that spilled into the Kalamazoo River are small enough to fit several on a fingernail. They’re also part of a much larger problem. The “nurdles” that ...

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, ...

Another major petrochemical company has agreed to publicly report its plastic pellet pollution under mounting public pressure from an activist shareholders group. Westlake Chemical Corp., a Houston ...