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

The European Council and Parliament have provisionally agreed to implement new rules that should reduce microplastic pollution on land and at sea by placing stricter due diligence requirements on ...

Now we can do it the other way. [Aubrey Woern] and [Joshua Pearce] of Michigan Tech have been working on a polymer pelletizer chopper that takes plastic filament and turns it into pellets.

Each year, the equivalent of up to 7,300 truckloads of plastic pellets are lost to the environment. Today, the EU has taken a landmark step toward reducing pellet pollution by adopting measures to ...

"So they take the plastic pellet and they convert that into our finished products." Finished products include ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel, and companies like BP are already placing orders.

An Ireland South MEP has welcomed a provisional agreement on a new EU regulation to reduce pollution. Plastic pellet losses ...

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