A #thread on a potential disaster unfolding in Mumbai right now. Millions of small plastic nurdles have been washing ashore along the high-tide line since Sunday morning. So far they've been seen at Aksa, Versova and Juhu beaches.

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The post storm Babet clean up continues. Chatted with some local fishermen to see if we might be able to assist them in salvaging some of the many creels that washed up in the huge waves. Finding all sorts washed up, from huge items to microplastics & so many nurdles!

Elberry Beach today, full of micro plastics. Nurdles, bio beads, cartridges, fireworks, bottle caps, fishing wire, pen lids, cotton bud sticks… #BeachClean #SaveOurSeas

The beach is covered in - and partly made of - >>millions<< of plastic nurdles. These originate from nearby, waters-edge companies that manufacture and transport them, and have been incredible lax on preventing pollution. A huge, and poorly regulated, problem... 2/n

Spotted on BBC The One Show last night - nice work Malcolm Hudson!
#nurdles
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Shocked to see so many #plastic #nurdles on the beach at Limekilns in Fife... 😦

Must be from a big spill, but how did they get there, up the Firth of Forth..?

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Tranquilos todos!!, que din na @xunta q non hai constancia de que os nurdles afecten á vida do mar disque…

Do you know what nurdles are? (The ghostwriter of this tweet did not 🙃!) Learn about what they are and where they fall in the world of plastic production, pollution, and policies in our article: About the Nurdle Minigame ➡️ buff.ly/3w1ak3Z+🎮 buff.ly/44eCMfh

Throughly depressing walk along Hengistbury Head this morning - a high tide after a storm and the strand line was littered with thousands upon thousands of nurdles and plastic fragments.

Anteayer os puse un mapa de Pellets por el Mundo que, en realidad, era de tóxicos adsorbidos por los pellets del mundo.
Este de aquí abajo sí que es un mapa de PELLETS o GRANZA (o Nurdles, en inglés).
Es colaborativo y podéis ayudar.
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A new drift seed for us on Vatersay after work: Ipomoea alba, lodged among the nurdles on the strandline after a 4000 mile journey across the Atlantic. Thanks to Martin Gray for encouraging us to look for the smaller things on the beach!

Prof. Eliot Jacobson Took all the turtles
Put em in a sea museum
Charged people a cup and half of nurdles just to see em

Beach clean today. Sad to see so many #plastic #nurdles washed up 🌊. Empty drill case, plastic mesh & rings, rope, #polystyrene , plastic forks, straws & toothbrush. Looks a little better than when we started. #GBSpringClean Clean Coasts Reporting Litter Keep Britain Tidy

｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ᙖꙆoᥱຕ.22 ۵🧙🏻‍♀️❁ Twee plastic wattenstaafjes, een MBBR-waterfilterje en 60 zeemeerminnentranen aka #nurdles die spoelen met vrachtwagenladingen tegelijk aan lans de rivier en aan de kust.

For #PlasticFreeJuly we tracked & submitted nurdle data from along our bayous. Nurdles are made @ Houston Ship Channel from chemicals. Because nurdles absorb toxins, & get accidentally eaten by fish they disrupt biodiversity & human health. Total tracked 370 #BreakFreeFromPlastic

Pero a lección de Sri Lanka é importante. Foi unha auténtica desfeita ambiental, pero o país non conseguiu que a Organización Marítima Internacional, con sede en Londres, clasificase os nurdles como mercadorías perigosas.

Willie Muse I have no idea if floam qualifies for the more specific and hilariously named plastic pollutant called 'nurdles', but I doubt there will ever be a product more visually fitting for the term nurdle than floam.

📷 Nurdle hunt during #COESSING #2023.

475 #nurdles found by 20 #Punchers within 10 minutes on the turtle nesting beach in Accra.

#Oceandecade #Citizenscience #Data #Bethechange #Oceanliteracy #PlasticPunch 🐢🌊🅿️🤛

One beach, abundant sunshine, two bags of trash, handfuls of microplastics, and countless nurdles.

Sometimes these efforts seem futile, but I am convinced if we all do a little more, we really can make a difference.

With snow melt swelling our rivers & streams, it's a great day for a river cleanup. Environment Colorado is here gathering a petition to stop trillions of plastic pellets (nurdles) from being dumped in the water. #zerowaste #rivercleanup #plastics Sign here - environmentamerica.org/take-action/te…