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THE GREAT NURDLE HUNT

TACKLING WORLDWIDE NURDLE POLLUTION

nurdles are plastic pellets used by industry to make nearly all our plastic products
accidental spills result in large numbers of nurdles being washed out to sea
at sea nurdles can attract and concentrate background pollutants to toxic levels
mistaken for food by many animals, nurdles and the toxins coating them can enter the food chain

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23 Jan 2020
What should you do with your collected or found nurdles?

As it’s such an impossible task, we don’t encourage our nurdle hunters to remove the nurdles, but still we often get asked the question; ‘What should I do with the nurdles I collect?’
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17 Jan 2020
Dutch NGO releases evidence of shocking nurdle pollution

Today, the Dutch NGO, Plastic Soup Foundation (PSF) has released its results of an investigation into the pollution of rivers and waterways surrounding three major ports in the Netherlands.
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18 Dec 2019
How do we tackle global pellet loss?

As a new year nurdle gift, we want to share with you a bit more detail about the work we're doing behind the scenes to try to tackle pellet pollution at source, stopping it from reaching the sea in the first place.
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17 Dec 2019
Save the date! The Great Global Nurdle Hunt is here again

The time has come again for the annual Great Global Nurdle Hunt.

This time, we want it to be even bigger and are calling for people from all corners of the earth to join us in heading to a beach, searching for nurdles and submitting data online.
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17 Dec 2019
Our Ocean Needs Action Not Promises: New Briefing Available Online

Nurdles don't need to become marine litter at all, but we need co-ordinated international action to tackle this global issue at source.

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