LOWCOUNTRY, S.C. (WCIV) — 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 ...

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 ...

BRUSSELS, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The European Commission proposed measures on Monday to prevent microplastic pollution from the spillage of plastic pellets into the environment. Around 176,000 metric tons ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

An environmental cleanup is underway in and around Saugatuck in Allegan County after a large spill of polystyrene plastic pellets, some of which entered the Kalamazoo River and adjacent wetlands. The ...

A view of the cogeneration plant operated by the University of North Carolina, located a half-mile from the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News This story originally ...