The European Parliament on Thursday definitively adopted rules clamping down on pollution from the tiny pellets that ...

Chemist Mark Alpeter poses for a portrait Monday inside of his home in Victoria. Alpeter recently started his own company after working at Union Carbide and Dow Chemical for 30 years. Plastics are ...

At first glance, the tiny plastic pellets appear relatively harmless. No bigger than a lentil, these "nurdles" are destined ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) ...

A Mexico-based tech company says it can recycle more than 90 percent of any type of plastic without using water. The new method also reduces costs by half without suffering any loss in quality, ...