Plastic pellets are small in size, but a much bigger headache for the environment

In 10 minutes, volunteers collected nearly 700 nurdles at Rotary Park in Carlsbad earlier this month. Nurdles are tiny, pre-production plastic pellets about the size of a lentil or a fish egg, and ...
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Unpacking long-standing claim oceans will contain more plastic than fish by 2050

A persistent claim shared by high-profile sources such as the United Nations, (archived) (archived) World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (archived) says ...
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As plastic talks wrap up in Canada, fishers in Indonesia count the costs

Fishers in the Thousand Islands archipelago off the Jakarta coast have reported extensive economic losses due to the scale of plastic waste littering their seas. Declining catch volume and costly ...