Environmental groups said tiny plastic pellets are increasingly showing up in U.S. waterways, threatening wildlife and human health. The pellets, also known as nurdles, are about the size of a lentil ...

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At first glance, the tiny plastic pellets appear relatively harmless. No bigger than a lentil, these "nurdles" are destined to be melted down to make everything from car bumpers to salad bowls. But ...

As WCIV reported,, that discovery could lead to a federal lawsuit against four companies on the Cooper River, which critics say have contributed to years of preventable plastic contamination in one of ...

Retailers concerned by the ever-growing scourge of marine plastic pollution can, at long last, take practical action to tackle an entirely preventable form of plastic pollution within their supply ...

When Tracey Read first saw the initial plastic pellets spill washed up on Hong Kong beaches, it had a familiar look. "The initial spill looked like snow on several beaches and in quite a few areas the ...

This spring, citizen scientists across the country and the globe participated in the International Plastic Pellet Count, collecting small, usually round so-called “nurdles” on the shores of their ...

Tiny plastic pellets called nurdles are a major source of global pollution, littering waterways, harming ecosystems and threatening marine life. But plastic pellet pollution is preventable, according ...

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, ...

RIBEIRA, Spain, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Hundreds of volunteers sifted through sandy beaches with colanders and shovels on Monday in Spain's northwestern Galicia region after millions of plastic pellets ...