Cleanup of small, plastic pellets known as nurdles from the Hoosic River following a train derailment last week in Valley Falls is ongoing.

Several train cars derailed Friday in East Harris County, smashing into a facility and leaving behind plastic harmful to wildlife and the environment.

Months after a train spilled them into the Hoosic River, neighbors are still finding the tiny plastic pellets known as nurdles.

Microplastics are tiny fragments of plastic less than 5 millimeters in diameter, some a fraction of the width of a strand of human hair.

“Unfortunately, a lot of things we completely recognize like straws, wrappers, water bottles, a lot of small plastic shards.” Plastic pollution is a growing problem in the Great Lakes.

Some tea bags release billions of tiny plastic particles when immersed in hot water, creating tea that can harm your health and increase your risk of cancer—but not all tea is equally as dangerous.

With recent news that plastic cutting boards may be releasing microplastics into our foods, it’s time to swap to wood cutting boards. We gathered the best wood cutting boards from Epicurean ...

Gum Can Release Thousands of Tiny Plastic Particles Into Your Mouth Chewing gum can expose you to hundreds or even thousands of microplastic bits, a new study shows.

The paper, published in Nature Medicine in February, revealed that the amount of microplastics—tiny plastic particles smaller than 5 millimeters—in the human brain appears to be increasing ...

Experts explain the dangers of microplastics—tiny plastic particles found in food, water, and air.

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It's an unnerving thought, but the average brain may contain a spoonful of plastic. A new study says the number of tiny bits of plastic found in human brains increased dramatically between 2016 ...