The nurdle hunters: is combing UK beaches for tiny bits of plastic a waste of time? – the Guardian
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More than 170tn plastic particles are floating in the world’s oceans – and millions of them wash up on our shores…
How Plastics Are Poisoning Us – the New Yorker
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They both release and attract toxic chemicals, and appear everywhere from human placentas to chasms thirty-six thousand feet beneath the sea…How worried should we be about what’s become known as “the plastic pollution crisis”? And what can be done about it? These questions lie at the heart of several recent books that take up what one author calls “the plastic trap…”
Nurdles: the worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard of – the Guardian
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Billions of these tiny plastic pellets are floating in the ocean, causing as much damage as oil spills, yet they are still not classified as hazardous