Record number of plastic nurdles found on beaches

More nurdles have been found on beaches than ever before as environmental groups call for legislation to class them as marine pollutants so they're subject to stricter laws during handling and transportation.

Nurdles are tiny pellets of plastic used by industry to produce nearly all of our plastic products but factory and cargo spillages mean many escape into the environment and end up in the sea.

They can have devastating consequences for wildlife and can soak up chemical pollutants before releasing toxins into the creatures that eat them.

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[adammac.]

These should be classed as marine pollutants, definitely!

[Fartman]

Nurdles rebellion gonna block the M4 about these nurdles

[tomcunningham]

We are the beasts that go poop in our own dens.

[gymynycricket]

Financially punish governments businesses who allow this

[jarvis]

I thought jack lost his jar of dirt for a minute there

[rossfergusson]

More English in Scotland is worse than the plastic problem to me

[reeling-in]

Are Sky not hounding a poor innocent 83 year old woman today, who was only making polite conversation!? Sky should be ashamed and of themselves!

[Paulus]

What what's the huge problem exactly?

[MissMarshall]

We need to manufacture locally. Stop shipping overseas!

[IBTU]

Yeah!!! More environmentally damaging stuff 🥳🥳🥳

[ijvgxqr]

Humans weren't such a good idea after all.

[greendiesel]

Ocean news ..

I thought it was sky news 😃

[tastypymp]

Yet the same people insisted we all wore face masks and got multiple jabs.

The pattern of behaviour here is that they constantly blame us for their wrongs.

[LadyAdakStillStands]

Will the Great Pacific Floating Garbage Patch create its own beach over time? Grinding against itself, creating trillions of Nurdles that build up a mound over time and settle on the ocean floor?

Nahhh. Wind n tide brings it home.

[muckraker]

On the other hand, dumping several thousand tons of white nurdles along the banks of the Thames downtown would look really great!! It can be a real Southbank white Christmas!