SULLIVAN'S ISLAND — Andrew Wunderley walked along the beach on Sullivan’s Island, turning his attention from the crashing waves to the line of debris that washed up during high tide. He crouched in ...

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 ...

SAUGATUCK, MI — Authorities say “several thousand pounds” of tiny plastic pellets spilled from a semi-trailer last month and some have entered the Kalamazoo River. A northbound semitrailer began ...

Lentil-sized and toxic, industrial plastic pellets known as "nurdles" – or "mermaid's tears" – are the second-largest source of microplastic pollution worldwide, with hundreds of thousands of tonnes ...

Today, the Council adopted its position ('general approach') on a regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets – the industrial raw materials used to make plastic products – to the environment ...

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 ...

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 ...