Environmental group San Diego Coastkeeper has announced an agreement with BNSF Railway for development of rules for safe ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new report highlights the scale of environmental pollution tied to the plastic pieces, prompting calls for a clampdown on discharges into waterways. Environmentalists are re-upping their calls for ...

Citizen scientists from around the world have helped bring awareness to an often-overlooked aspect of plastic pollution: pre-production plastic pellets, also known as "nurdles." By participating in ...

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 ...

Environmental groups in Pennsylvania say they plan to sue expanded polystyrene maker Styropek USA over pellet pollution, alleging that its resin plant in Monaca, Pa., is illegally discharging "copious ...

Two U.S. plastics industry groups are expanding their voluntary Operation Clean Sweep pellet spill containment program by adding more rigorous third-party auditing covering, for now, about 50 ...

As of the 16 December 2025, new regulatory obligations for the handling of plastic pellets take effect in the European Union. The Regulation (EU) 2025/2365 on preventing plastic pellet losses to ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the time it takes you to read this sentence—say, four seconds—the world produces ...

The European Commission recently introduced and officially implemented a specialized regulation, with the core objective of preventing plastic pellet leakage into the environment and establishing a ...