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CSX crews are in full cleanup mode after a train derailment sent a hopper and two tankers off the tracks Saturday evening.

Buried in the soil, dotting riverbanks and bobbing along streams: a small Belgian town has waged a years-long fight against creeping pollution from plastic pellets -- which the EU now has in its sights.The Belgian EU lawmaker Saskia Bricmont is among those pushing for tougher legislation.

Plastic Tide In a blow to local wildlife and coastal communities, countless tiny plastic pellets are littering the waters and beaches along Spain's northern coast after containers filled with the stuff fell off a shipping boat and into the ocean near Portugal, according to the BBC. The environmental disaster unfolded on December 8 when six […]

Dozens of 55-pound bags of the tiny plastic pellets known as nurdles, which are known to be a major source of microplastic pollution, have washed up in northwest Spain in recent weeks.

Dozens of volunteers used strainers to sift sand at beaches in northwestern Spain on Tuesday to collect millions of tiny plastic pellets that have washed up in recent days, endangering wildlife.Measuring less than five millimetres (0.2 inches) in size, they are not always readily visible except when they wash up in unusually huge quantities, as has been the case along the northwestern Spanish coast, and are notoriously hard to collect.

Scientists tested recycled plastic pellets from 13 countries worldwide and found that most of the samples contained highly toxic chemicals. Read more here.

The war against microplastics continues in the UK with officials announcing a glitter ban and putting plastic pellets next in line. Read more here.

Environmentalists raise alarm as millions of 5-mm plastic pellets wash ashore on Palghar, Aksa and Juhu beaches; fallen container from ship suspected

The pellets, measuring up to 5 millimeters, were first spotted on July 23 at Aksa beach in northwestern Mumbai by a lifeguard.

Microbeads are a serious threat to aquatic ecosystems, but activists in the U.S. are securing major legislative victories.