About 10,000 tons of plastic waste are getting into the Great Lakes every year, threatening one of the largest reservoirs of freshwater on the planet that supports nearly 50 million people in ...

David Boudinot, Surfrider Foundation Canada’s plastic pellet researcher, finds plastic pellets in a water reservoir leading to the Fraser River on Annacis Island in Delta, British Columbia on ...

Hundreds of thousands of tiny plastic pellets used to make bags, bottles and other plastic items are being washed into B.C. waterways and the province isn’t doing enough to stop it, says a group ...

"Recycled plastic is a toxic cocktail: Over 80 chemicals found in a single pellet." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 23 June 2025. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 06 / 250623072802.htm>.

Join us for the premiere of Life of a Pellet (@lifeofapellet), a stop motion short film exploring pre-production plastic pellet pollution. Made entirely o… ...

The $4.3-billion Heartland Petrochemical Complex, which has been under construction northeast of Edmonton since 2018, has produced its first plastic pellets. Owner and operator Inter Pipeline Ltd ...

Hundreds of volunteers sifted through sandy beaches with colanders and shovels on Monday in Spain's northwestern Galicia region after millions of plastic pellets washed up on its coast, triggering ...

PLASTIC WASTE IN OCEANS WILL TRIPLE BY 2040, RESEARCHERS SAY Greenpeace and other environmental groups calculate the total amount of pellets lost to be in the millions.

A “major disaster” alert has been issued in Spain after millions of plastic pellets were found washed up on more than 30 beaches after an accident at sea.

In this May 7, 2019 photo, a machine that produces plastic pellets is seen in operation at a GDB International warehouse in New Brunswick, N.J. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Seth Wenig / AP ...

The regulations will apply to all companies handling more than 5 metric tons of plastic pellets annually within the EU, a statement released by the European Parliament on Wednesday said.