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Shipping industry urged to prevent devastating plastic ‘nurdle’ spills

Campaigners are calling for the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to classify the small plastic pellets known as nurdles as marine pollutants and impose stricter controls on how they are handled, after a series of devastating spillages. So-called nurdles are lentil-sized pieces of plastic – used as building blocks for most of the plastic items produced […]

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Over 70 billion plastic nurdles in sea after X-Press Pearl disaster

The X-Press Pearl disaster, in which a cargo ship carrying chemicals caught on fire off the coast of Sri Lanka in May 2021, has resulted in the spillage of an estimated 70 billion nurdles (spherical pieces of plastic) into the ocean. According to a study published in the Environmental Journal of the American Chemical Society, […]