An operation to remove plastic pellets which ... “Our clean-up team are wearing gloves and using litter pickers as a reasonable precaution because they’re handling waste.” ...

Today, the Council and the European Parliament provisionally agreed on a regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets ...

The European Council estimated that 52,000-184,000 metric tons of pellets were spilled into surrounding environments in 2019.

Most importantly, they are considering whether to classify plastic pellets as hazardous substances. If pellets are classified as hazardous, ships would face stricter handling rules. Spills would ...

Clean-up teams are in a race against time to remove billions of plastic pellets that are building ... "It's the everyday handling of nurdles because the plastic supply chain is so big and because ...