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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21 Apr 2022
Save the date - The Great Global Nurdle Hunt 2022

The Great Global Nurdle Hunt 🌎 is back! Join us this September 19th - October 17th 2022. This year we are theming the hunt around big spills. Find out how you can get involved.

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28 Jan 2022
Tell us what you think!

We would like to hear your views! We have launched the great nurdle hunt survey to learn more about your nurdle hunt experiences and how you think we can improve the Great Nurdle Hunt.

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17 Dec 2021
Record number of nurdles found in Tarragona

Nearly a million nurdles have been collected in just 2 hours by the organisation Good Karma Projects during a nurdle clean up effort in November 2021. This is the highest number of nurdles we have heard of being collected in just a 2 hour period, indicating the severity of nurdle pollution in the Tarragona region.

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16 Nov 2021
Petition to Stop Nurdle Pollution at Sea

In May 2021, the MV X-Press Pearl spilt 1,680 tonnes of nurdles off the coast of Sri Lanka. It is the worst environmental disaster in the country's history, and the single largest nurdle pollution event the world has ever seen. We need your help. Sign the petition to call on the International Maritime Organisation to set obligations for industry to take responsibility to prevent these large scale pollution events from happening.

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9 Nov 2021
Results are in for The 2021 Great Global Nurdle Hunt

Results for The 2021 Great Global Nurdle Hunt are released today and are currently being showcased to decision makers at COP26! Access the report here.

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