Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A snapshot of "nurdles" — tiny plastic pellets that are the basic building blocks of nearly all plastic products. A snapshot of ...

Tiny plastic pellets called nurdles are a major source of global pollution, littering waterways, harming ecosystems and threatening marine life. But plastic pellet pollution is preventable, according ...

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EU cracks down on plastic pellet pollution despite industry exemptions New EU regulations could cut plastic pellet pollution by 74%, but exemptions for smaller companies and reliance on self-reporting ...

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 Interest Group and the Charleston ...

Every day large quantities of water are used for both domestic and industrial purposes. The Earth has abundant water resources but there is only an extremely limited amount of safe, drinkable water.

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 ...

Today, the Council and the European Parliament provisionally agreed on a regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets – the industrial raw materials used to make plastic products – into the ...