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

Aboard an aluminum skiff or one of her five kayaks, fourth-generation shrimper and fisherwoman Diane Wilson often plies the ...

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 ...

With tailored, evidence-based policies, the U.S. can relieve the burden on local and municipal governments, communities, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plastic pellets that tumbled into the sea when a cargo ship and tanker collided off the coast of the United Kingdom are now showing up in large numbers in the water and along beaches. The Royal ...

Former EPA official Judith Enck explains why plastic pollution is a production problem—and how policy, not recycling, can ...

Hundreds of people in the northwest Spanish community of Galicia are working to clean up millions of tiny plastic pellets that have been washing up on their Atlantic Ocean shores. The pellets, known ...

From the Galapagos Islands to India, tiny plastic pellets known as nurdles are turning up in some of the world’s most ecologically sensitive places. A new report by charity Fidra has found they are ...

Countless plastic beads are washing ashore in France, and officials are stumped as to how to deal with the environmental disaster. Reading time 3 minutes For the past year on the coast of France, the ...

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 ...