Gulf Coast Environmental Group Sues Plastic Company
The nonprofit San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper and an environmental activist are suing to stop Formosa Plastics from discharging plastic pellets into nearby bays and estuaries.
For the last year and a half, Bobby Lindsey and other volunteers with the San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper have collected more than 1,600 clusters of BB-sized plastic pellets from the shorelines of Lavaca and Matagorda bays. Formosa Plastics, an offshoot of a Taiwanese plastics company that operates an 1,800-acre petrochemical complex on Lavaca Bay, produces the transparent polyethylene and polypropylene pellets, which can be used to make toys and Tupperware. But the lightweight pellets often blow away during transport within the facility and end up floating in the bays.
https://www.texasobserver.org/gulf-coast-environmental-group-sues-plastic-company-after-slow-response-from-tceq/
