This report was first published by Inside Climate News. CHAPEL HILL — On a Friday afternoon in mid-January, college students ...

Nurdles spill into waterways, wash up on beaches, endanger wildlife and threaten water quality. A handful of nurdles can hint ...

Pellet loss prevention is essential for reducing microplastics in the environment. Plastics Europe supports a mandatory risk ...

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Typical laundry detergents can harm the environment, your skin, and your wallet, but ceramic pellet technology aims to put a ...

If that sounds weird, well, kidneys help regulate blood pressure in part through signals from certain nerves. “My blood ...

Plastic is one of the most useful products of the 20th and 21st centuries. Its flexibility and cost-efficiency expanded across different industries, but ...

China had taken in nearly half of the world’s plastic waste since 1992 until it imposed an import ban in 2018.

UNC’s proposal to burn paper and plastic pellets at its power plant garnered opposition at a Chapel Hill hearing this week.