leaving nothing but small plastic flakes. 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 ...

While burning the pellets would reduce greenhouse gases from the university’s physical plant, it would increase harmful ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A view of the cogeneration plant operated by the University of North Carolina, located a half-mile from the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. (Photo: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News) CHAPEL HILL — On a Friday ...

Flintshire was reported to have a £40m backlog of road repairs Recycled plastic has been used to resurface a road in Flintshire as part of a trial scheme. Pellets made from the waste material ...

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 ...