Illinois law is the first in the Great Lakes region to designate industrial plastic pellets as pollution

Illinois is requiring polluters to begin reporting spills of industrial plastic pellets known as nurdles, a growing source of contamination in the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds.

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