A new bill in the state senate would ban the discharge of pre-production plastic pellets, also known as "nurdles." This ...

Environmental advocates urged Colorado state lawmakers to crack down on tiny plastic pellets they say are polluting waterways ...

Aboard an aluminum skiff or one of her five kayaks, fourth-generation shrimper and fisherwoman Diane Wilson often plies the coastal bays and streams near her tiny hometown of Seadrift, Texas. But ...

Environmental groups in South Carolina say the state and a company in charge of shipping plastic pellets isn’t doing enough to stop them from going into the harbor and showing up on the beaches around ...

Plastic pellets known as nurdles are embedded in the sand along the banks of the Hoosic River Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024 in Schaghticoke. SCHAGHTICOKE — Months after a train crashed the night of Feb. 7 ...

MADRID — Spanish state prosecutors have opened an investigation of countless tiny plastic pellets washing up on the country’s northwest coastline after they were spilled from a transport ship, posing ...

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 ...

A pollution incident where millions of plastic pellets were washed up along the Sussex and Kent coast has been upgraded, ...

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 ...

LOWCOUNTRY, S.C. (WCIV) — Local community leaders are working to raise awareness of plastic pellet pollution, a problem that remains prevalent in the Charleston area. Advocates from the Public ...

Spanish state prosecutors are investigating the presence of numerous small plastic pellets along the northwest coastline, spilled from a transport ship. There are fears that the pellets may have toxic ...

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 ...