High levels of plastic pollution can kill the embryos of a wide range of ocean animals, new research shows. High levels of plastic pollution can kill the embryos of a wide range of ocean animals, new ...

In 10 minutes, volunteers collected nearly 700 nurdles at Rotary Park in Carlsbad earlier this month. Nurdles are tiny, pre-production plastic pellets about the size of a lentil or a fish egg, and ...

Seadrift, Texas — 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 ...

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

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 ...

A Pennsylvania plastics manufacturer will pay $2.6 million for allegedly violating the federal Clean Water Act and will ensure that no more of its plastic pellets leak into waterways, under a proposed ...

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, ...

Prices for polypropylene, polystyrene and PVC resins all have increased since Aug. 1 as the result of solid demand and some supply restrictions. Plastics News also is showing price hikes for recycled ...