Community Groups Launch Coordinated Hunts to Collect Coastal Plastic Pellets
Residents and supporters are organizing targeted searches to locate and remove plastic resin pellets, or nurdles, from shoreline environments. These grassroots tracking efforts aim to document and mitigate the spread of industrial microplastic pollution.
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Country diary: We’re going on a nurdle hunt | Richard Smyth
Whitley Bay, North Tyneside: A huge community effort is under way to clear up a spill of these disastrously resilient beads. We take a family trip to the beach to do our bit My son spots the first one. It’s about the size of a lentil, and half-buried in the dry sand. We’re on the beach at the seaside town of Whitley Bay. We’ve just walked past a clean-up crew of about 40 volunteers in hi-vis clothing and rubber gloves, kneeling or stooped over black buckets. This is the aftermath of the Tyne ...
By Richard Smyth
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