'Nurdles are everywhere': how plastic pellets ravaged a Sri Lankan paradise
by Zinara Rathnayake

The Guardian    Translate This Article
25 January 2022

On 25 January 2022 The Guardian reported: Sri Lanka's golden beaches have turned black as debris released from a sunken ship continues to wreak environmental and economic havoc. The X-Press Pearl caught fire in May last year and eventually sank, spilling its cargo -- which included chemicals and plastic pellets -- into the sea. The charred fuel oil and burnt debris were from the wreckage of the container ship, and littered among them was perhaps the worst hazard of all: tiny plastic pellets called nurdles. Millions or even billions of nurdles have been washing up along the island's coastline for hundreds of miles, from Mannar in the north to Kirinda in the south. A UN report called the incident in May 2021 the 'single largest plastic spill' in history, with about 1,680 tonnes of nurdles released into the ocean. Global Good News service views this news as the failure of modern science systems. Such 'flops' highlight the need for more intelligent, evolutionary, Natural Law based, life-supporting systems.

Most of them were partly burnt and contaminated with chemicals and debris from the ship spill, posing even more of a threat to marine life -- and the local community.

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