When heavy winds swept through Hong Kong during a storm in July 2012, hundreds of millions of tiny, plastic pellets - each one no bigger than a lentil - fell off a freight ship. The particles ...

The flakes are heated, dried, and cooled, then cut into small resin pellets. Normally, polyester is made from petroleum. But Adidas melts these pellets to create a filament, which is spun into ...

An engineer scoops a handful of tiny pellets out of a stainless ... Made of polymers repurposed from plastic waste, the pellets represent the successful reuse of thousands of bottles, bags ...