The derailment happened overnight on Saturday, Sept. 23 at about 1:39 a.m. near Baltimore Avenue, leaving railcars stuck on the road and scattering plastic pellets around the area, according to CSX.

The trouble with nurdles, the plastic pollution you may not know about San Diego environmentalists send railroad cargo company notice of pending pollution lawsuit ...

The global campaign to gain control of plastic waste is one of the fastest-growing environmental causes ever mounted. Yet it hasn’t been enough to make a dent in the growing tonnage of discarded ...

Item 1 of 5 Women clean up the sand of Vilar beach after millions of plastic pellets washed up on the Spanish northwestern Galicia region, triggering environmental concerns and a political blame ...

The European Commission estimates that between 52,000 and 184,000 tons of plastic pellets are released into the environment in the EU’s 27 member countries each year, and an estimated 50 ...