Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A snapshot of "nurdles" — tiny plastic pellets that are the basic building blocks of nearly all plastic products. A snapshot of ...

Tiny plastic pellets, also called "mermaid's tears", are shown washed ashore on the beaches of Brittany, France in January 2023. Lentil-sized and toxic, industrial plastic pellets known as "nurdles" – ...

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 taken to figure out what can ...

H.R. 7634 has been introduced into the United States House of Representatives which is titled: Plastic Pellet Free Waters Act (“Act”). The Act requires that the United States Environmental Protection ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Potentially thousands of tiny plastic pellets have leaked into the Congaree River, littering the waterway south of Columbia and ...

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 ...