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And, unlike in the West, companies aiming to create wood pellets to ship abroad have proliferated in the South.

The rifle, it turned out, was a battery-powered airsoft gun, which shoots plastic pellets.

Veterinarians determined the female cub had a malformed shoulder and elbow, along with a BB pellet embedded in her paw, the nonprofit said.

They kicked them while wearing heavy work boots and shot them at close range with rubber pellets.

Four years after a stricken cargo ship caused the largest plastic spill ever recorded, volunteers on Sri Lanka's beaches are still sifting kilograms of tiny, toxic plastic pellets from the sand.