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[1] [2] These microplastics are made primarily from polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, and other plastics or synthetic resins. [3] Nurdles are the building block, via plastic extrusion or injection molding, for items for everyday life including plastic water bottles, containers, and bags. [4] An example of nurdles
Plastic "nurdle" pellets on a beach in southwest France, 2011. Plastic pellet pollution is a type of marine debris originating from the plastic particles that are universally used to manufacture large-scale plastics. In the context of plastic pollution, these pre-production plastic pellets are commonly known as 'nurdles'. [1]
This article is a list of environmental disasters. In this context it is an annotated list of specific events caused by human activity that results in a negative effect on the environment . Main article: Environmental disaster
It’s the highest-profile example of an invasive aquatic plant crisis that has cost ... Now a Kenyan company is addressing the problem as well as the country’s plastic pollution issue by ...
By using data on surface plastic concentration (pieces of plastic per km 2) from 1972 to 1985 (n=60) and 2002–2012 (n=457) within the same plastic accumulation zone, the study found the mean plastic concentration increase between the two sets of data, including a 10-fold increase of 18,160 to 189,800 pieces of plastic per km 2.
The South Pacific garbage patch is an area of ocean with increased levels of marine debris and plastic particle pollution, within the ocean's pelagic zone. This area is in the South Pacific Gyre , which itself spans from waters east of Australia to the South American continent, as far north as the Equator , and south until reaching the ...
Drax has been accused of “environmental racism” for locating wood pellet plants in majority-Black communities with high poverty rates. In 2022, it paid $3.2 million to settle with the state of ...
The High Level pellet mill in High Level, Alberta, produces wood pellets for the company, which runs Britain’s biggest power station in Yorkshire. Drax faces penalty after Canadian biomass plant ...