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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After a brief bump in recycled PET resin prices in late 2024 due to increased demand driven by hurricane disruptions to municipal water systems, pricing settled into traditional seasonal levels.

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 ...