In 10 minutes, volunteers collected nearly 700 nurdles at Rotary Park in Carlsbad earlier this month. Nurdles are tiny, ...

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Tiny plastic pellets called nurdles are showing up near Congaree National Park. The discovery is a concern because of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An employee holds plastic pellets in a production area of a company. The European Union has hashed out new regulations aimed at ...

Charleston Waterkeeper has notified four groups that it intends to sue over pollution caused by “nurdles,” or small plastic ...

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 ...

Nurdles — popcorn-sized pellets of the raw material to make plastic — are escaping by the billions into Texas waterways, ...

Millions of plastic pellets spilled into the Mississippi River last month. Afterward, activists and researchers say, government agencies dragged their feet, with no one wanting to claim responsibility ...

A prominent environmental law firm has notified four companies operating along the Cooper River.

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 ...