In a blow to local wildlife and coastal communities, countless tiny plastic pellets are littering the waters and beaches along Spain’s northern coast after containers filled with the stuff fell off a ...

Diane Wilson, the prominent Gulf Coast environmentalist, filed a legal notice of intent on Wednesday to sue Dow for alleged ...

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.

A pollution investigation has been launched by the Environment Agency after a "huge quantity" of small plastic pellets have ...

Australian materials science firm Uluu eyes commercial-scale facility for seaweed bio-plastics with $16 million Series A raise.

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 ...

Your first impression of Diane Wilson and her brigade of volunteer environmental activists might be that they're aging hippies, still fighting the establishment. But here's the truth: They're battling ...

Democrats in Washington have put a provision mandating tougher regulations on pellet discharge from plastic factories in the $715 billion fast-track surface transportation spending plan that the U.S.

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, ...

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 ...

ENCINITAS, Calif. (KGTV) — Tiny pieces of plastic called nurdles are being spotted along train tracks and at beaches in San Diego County. Local nonprofits tell ABC 10News that they think they know who ...

Look on the side of a highway sometime and you might see them. Or along the railroad tracks or a stream. Maybe even between your toes at the beach. Tiny pearl-shaped pieces of plastic, known as ...