Microplastics in the ocean are a serious problem for wildlife, like sea turtles in Texas. Companies creating the problem ...

At the base of the overturned train car, Jackie Medcalf scoops small plastic pellets from the muddy ground and deposits them in a mason jar. When it’s about halfway full, she caps the jar and ...

Today, the Council adopted its position ('general approach') on a regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets – the industrial raw materials used to make plastic products – to the environment ...

The Galicia region is worst hit so far but the pellets have spread to Asturias too Communities along the coast of northern Spain fear an environmental disaster as millions of tiny plastic pellets ...

Less than three months later, huge volumes of plastic pellets – produced from petrochemical companies and the raw material for the manufacture of plastic goods – began washing up on beaches in ...

In specific markets, PET bales remained the highest volume plastic waste commodity in 2024. The price in mid-December for curbside PET bales (mixed colors) was 17.5cts/lb FOB east of the Rockies, up ...