Plastics are everywhere — from grocery store bags to water bottle packs. Each year, thousands of tons of plastic materials are made from tiny pellets. Testing pellets for defects is difficult, ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

UNC-Chapel Hill is asking the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality to update its air permit to allow it to burn recycled paper-and-plastic pellets at its Cogeneration power plant on Cameron Avenue ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—On a Friday afternoon in mid-January, college students hugged themselves as they lumbered through the University of North Carolina campus. Temperatures teetered just above freezing.

Olivia Rosane is a freelance writer who focuses on environmental issues. Her work has appeared in EcoWatch, YES!, and Real Life Magazine. Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small ...

(Bloomberg) — Environmentalists have identified another threat to the planet. It’s called a nurdle. Nurdles are tiny pellets of plastic resin no bigger than a pencil eraser that manufacturers ...

MUSTANG ISLAND, Texas — Jace Tunnell shuffled forward near the water’s edge, head bent. He was hunting for something that shouldn’t be on this beach near Corpus Christi, and he kept finding it. Hidden ...

The lawsuit stemming from a 2019 spill of plastic pellets in Charleston Harbor is now on hold as the State Ports Authority fights against a subpoena. The suit, filed by Charleston Waterkeeper and the ...

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality says Formosa Plastics Corp. USA's discharge violations are outside its water rights jurisdiction despite it being the authority FPC USA was ordered to ...

A water company has vowed to improve its understanding of the water treatment process after millions of plastic pellets washed up on an East Sussex beach. Southern Water has said it is "highly likely" ...