By Alex Shaw A coalition of leading European environmental groups has cautiously welcomed a “landmark” agreement by lawmakers ...

Still to this day, many plastic pellets are lost during daily operations at handling installations or during transport ending up in the environment, including in the sea, due to inadequate handling by ...

while companies handling over 1,500 tonnes of plastic pellets a year will have to obtain independent certification of conformity with the new rules. Despite the resultant exemptions for swathes of ...

Representatives of the European Parliament and the European Council agreed to toughen rules for firms handling and transporting microscopic pellets to reduce spillages in the environment.

“These small but hazardous plastic pellets pose a significant risk to our internationally important bird populations. We're particularly worried as these plastics could be mistaken for food and enter ...

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Following the collision, thousands of plastic pellets used in plastics production, known as nurdles, were released from ruptured containers on Solong and began washing up on beaches on the Norfolk ...

Although EIA and our partners in the Rethink Plastic alliance regret broad exemptions for small entities handling plastic pellets, we welcome this ground-breaking regional approach to reducing a ...

The new rules will help improve the handling of plastic pellets at all stages of the supply chain, both on land and sea. Microplastics, including plastic pellets are now found everywhere — in our ...

Researchers also found virgin plastic pellets, the raw granules used to manufacture plastic products. One of the studies identified a virulent bacterium on a microplastic in the Loire in France ...