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"More than 1,000 sacks of pellets known as nurdles ... have fallen from the Liberian flagged frieghter Toconao, some 50 miles west of Vigo The tiny plastic balls used to make water bottles ... are less than 5mm wide, making cleaning up extremely difficult. Volunteers… combing through sand and sieving water to find the plastic pellets... accused Spain's Socialist-led national government of failing to inform local authorities.  |
The crisis is reminiscent of Spain's worst ever… when the oil tanker Prestige broke up... spilling more than 60,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil along the region's shoreline... Authorities say the pellets, which are made of PET plastic, are non-toxic. Around 300 million tons of nurdles are manufactured every year… "BBC News 9th January 2024
DESPITE CONTINUOUS BBC AND EUROTV COVERAGE OF THE CATASTROPHE, A Tourism Management article:
