At the base of the overturned train car, Jackie Medcalf scoops small plastic pellets from the muddy ground and deposits them in a mason jar. When it’s about halfway full, she caps the jar and ...

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

This is the first program of its kind. Company launches groundbreaking program to turn construction-site waste into durable ...

The BB-sized pellets made at Quality Circular Polymers (QCP) could hold the key to changing how the world thinks about plastics. Made of polymers repurposed from plastic waste, the pellets ...

Instead, the university is asking state environmental regulators for permission to burn up to 22,000 tons of pellets composed ...

then shredding the plastic into small pellets. "We've got employees that are basically refinery operators," plant manager Jason Sasse added. "So they take the plastic pellet and they convert that ...

LyondellBasell will begin the process of shuttering its Houston Ship Channel refinery this weekend. The company expects to ...

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 ...

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LyondellBasell Industries will begin the permanent closure of its 263,776 barrel-per-day Houston refinery this coming weekend ...

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