A pollution investigation has been launched by the Environment Agency after a "huge quantity" of small plastic pellets have ...

Heavy metals, including lead, arsenic and cadmium, have been found on plastic pellets which washed up in their millions along ...

Southern Water has been accused of failing to co-operate with a criminal investigation after it caused a major pollution ...

"[We] have inspected multiple locations ... to gather evidence." Officials launch investigation after mysterious beads wash ...

The noise complaints follow concerns about a smell being generated by the treatment facility. Eastbourne Borough Council served Southern Water with a legal notice over the odour in August. Deep ...

A recent spill of bio-beads – small plastic pellets used by some wastewater treatment facilities since the 1990s – has brought renewed attention to a problem that has been quietly accumulating in ...

Bio-beads from Camber Sands in East Sussex contain heavy metals such as lead and arsenic, according to King's College scientists.

Heavy metals including lead, arsenic and cadmium have been detected on plastic pellets that washed up in their millions along ...

Scientists are hard at work trying to assess the scale of our microplastic pollution problem and the likely health impacts.