At the base of the overturned train car, Jackie Medcalf scoops small plastic pellets from the muddy ground and deposits them in a mason jar. When it’s about halfway full, she caps the jar and ...
These tiny plastic pellets, barely visible to the naked eye, are wreaking havoc on coastal ecosystems. Plastic nurdles, also known as pre-production plastic pellets, serve as the raw material for ...
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Plastic is one of the most useful products of the 20th and 21st centuries. Its flexibility and cost-efficiency expanded across different industries, but ...