The minuscule spheres, typically less than 5 millimeters in diameter, are the basic building blocks of nearly all plastic ...

The real winners of the next decade are positioning themselves—not as waste companies or recyclers—but as premium suppliers ...

This Crain’s Forum on the emerging threat of microplastics pollution in the Great Lakes is a joint project of the newsrooms of Crain’s Chicago Business and Crain's Detroit Business. McDonald's Corp.

The European Union has hashed out new regulations aimed at reducing the release of plastic pellets into the environment. Under the agreement reached by negotiators from the European Parliament and EU ...

The plastics industry has been a target of an increasing number of government actions in the U.S., laws that go beyond banning bags or straws. Two states on opposite sides of the country — Maine and ...

NEW YORK, April 19, 2017 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The report provides an exhaustive calculation of the Plastic Pellets ecosystem comprising of industry chain structure, market drivers, opportunities, ...

LOWCOUNTRY, S.C. (WCIV) — Local community leaders are working to raise awareness of plastic pellet pollution, a problem that remains prevalent in the Charleston area. Advocates from the Public ...

Editor’s note: This is the second entry in a series examining the causes, impacts and solutions to plastic pollution in the Great Lakes. Read the first, third and fourth entries here. BENTON HARBOR, ...