Tiny plastic pellets may soon be classified as hazardous cargo, as frequent spills are polluting oceans and harming wildlife.

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 ...

This Crain’s Forum on the emerging threat of microplastics pollution in the Great Lakes is a joint project of the newsrooms of Crain’s Chicago Business and Crain's Detroit Business. McDonald's Corp.

France’s Veolia helped turn Master Kong’s waste plastic bottles into recyclable PET pellets Storage boxes created from PET bottles had a 21% smaller carbon footprint, Alibaba Cloud certified Master ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The EU has agreed binding rules to reduce plastic pellet pollution, aiming to tackle up to 184,000 metric tons of annual leakage into the ...

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 ...

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, ...