They combed through the sargassum strands collecting as many nurdles — plastic pellets roughly the size of a pea — they could before the timer ran out. The more nurdles they found in 10 ...

UNC-Chapel Hill is asking the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality to update its air permit to allow it to burn recycled paper-and-plastic pellets at its Cogeneration power plant on Cameron ...

Others are cleaning up the polypropylene plastic pellets, which a Norfolk Southern ... The train was hauling boxcars and tanker cars, the photos show. The photos also showed at least one train ...