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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.