Volunteers Clean up Plastic Pellets, or Nurdles, Along Carlsbad Train Tracks

Volunteers clean up plastic pellets, or nurdles, along Carlsbad train tracks

More than a dozen of volunteer came to Rotary Park in Carlsbad on Saturday to help clean up tiny plastic pellets, often called nurdles. The cleanup is part of the second-annual International Plastic Pellet Count, intended to help document the extent of plastic pollution across the globe. One of the volunteers was Janice Jones with the Surfrider Foundation San Diego Chapter. As the head of the Plastic Pollution Program, Jones has been involved in…

Great Lakes cleanup targets plastic pellets polluting waterways

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This weekend, thousands of volunteers will descend on Great Lakes beaches for nurdle counts and clean-up events at their local waterways. The goal is to help identify plastic pellet pollution […]