Environmental groups said tiny plastic pellets are increasingly showing up in U.S. waterways, threatening wildlife and human health. The pellets, also known as nurdles, are about the size of a lentil ...

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At first glance, the tiny plastic pellets appear relatively harmless. No bigger than a lentil, these "nurdles" are destined to be melted down to make everything from car bumpers to salad bowls. But ...

As WCIV reported,, that discovery could lead to a federal lawsuit against four companies on the Cooper River, which critics say have contributed to years of preventable plastic contamination in one of ...

The pollution of these pellets, called nurdles, stretches at least 26 miles downstream, Riverkeeper alleges in the suit, including the stretch where the river flows past Congaree National Park, the ...

Volunteers searching North Carolina waterways for pollution found tiny plastic pellets in Lake Brandt. Advocates say the ...

Retailers concerned by the ever-growing scourge of marine plastic pollution can, at long last, take practical action to tackle an entirely preventable form of plastic pollution within their supply ...

High levels of plastic pollution can kill the embryos of a wide range of ocean animals, new research shows. Scientists tested the effects of new PVC pellets (pre-production “nurdles” used to make many ...

Volunteers cleaning up millions of plastic pellets which have washed up on a Sussex beach say it is "the worst single incident" they have encountered. The pellets, known as biobeads, were washed ...

This spring, citizen scientists across the country and the globe participated in the International Plastic Pellet Count, collecting small, usually round so-called “nurdles” on the shores of their ...

RIBEIRA, Spain, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Hundreds of volunteers sifted through sandy beaches with colanders and shovels on Monday in Spain's northwestern Galicia region after millions of plastic pellets ...