A study points to the risk of fragments remaining in the geological cycle. Laboratory analyses mainly identified polyethylene ...

Britain has banned everything from plastic straws to cutlery, but one type of plastic pollution keeps washing up and shows no ...

In a blow to local wildlife and coastal communities, countless tiny plastic pellets are littering the waters and beaches along Spain’s northern coast after containers filled with the stuff fell off a ...

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 ...

A three-year NSW Environment Protection Authority study found microplastics in all 120 coastal waterways, with higher levels ...

More than a month after they poured from a semi-trailer on a west Michigan highway, little bits of white plastic appeared to ...

I-196, tiny white plastic pellets known as "nurdles" are still scattered along the Kalamazoo River corridor near Saugatuck. A ...

Plastic pellets known as nurdles are embedded in the sand along the banks of the Hoosic River Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024 in Schaghticoke. SCHAGHTICOKE — Months after a train crashed the night of Feb. 7 ...

NOIA, Spain — Countless tiny plastic pellets are washing up on the shores of northern Spain and local authorities declared an environmental emergency on Tuesday after a shipping container fell off a ...