News: Nurdles

Volunteers cleaning the beach at Whitley Bay. Image by Leah Pattem.

Calls for people to join global plastic pollution survey

Tuesday 25 August 2026

A global search for plastic pellets called nurdles is still underway with thousands of volunteers and organisations across the world taking to beaches to document how industrial plastic pollution…

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