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 story is part of a joint investigation with NPR that includes the documentary Plastic Wars, which aired March 31, 2020, on PBS. Stream the film. Look on the side of a highway sometime and you ...

Texas environmental regulators have opened an enforcement case against Dow Inc. over plastic pellet pollution leaking from one of its factories, amid signs of an increased focus on the issue by ...

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, ...

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UNC-Chapel Hill is asking the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality to update its air permit to allow it to burn recycled paper-and-plastic pellets at its Cogeneration power plant on Cameron Avenue ...

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 ...