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 ...

This press release was updated on 23 July 2025 to add the agreed text Today, the Council and the European Parliament provisionally agreed on a regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets – ...

Under the rules, large companies, defined as handling more than 1,500 metric tons of pellets a year, will need to obtain a third-party certificate to prove they are complying.

A coalition of leading European environmental groups has cautiously welcomed a “landmark” agreement by lawmakers in Brussels on new rules aimed at curbing a major source of microplastic pollution in ...

This Jan. 30, 2012, file photo, shows the sign for the ExxonMobil Torerance Refinery in Torrance, Calif. Exxon has apparently agreed to start reporting when it spills plastic pellets, a major ...

Across Europe, an estimated 41,000 tons of plastic pellets are lost to the environment each year. To put this into perspective, this amount is equivalent to more than 11 billion plastic bottles.