Sentences with word «nurdles»

«In contrast, there was an absence of nurdles — pellets used as a basis for plastic production — and a lower incidence of plastic filamentous fibers from commercial fishing, such as rope, netting and cord.»

Clothing, cigarettes, and jewellery have featured frequently — she paints with cigarette ash, and her solo show Out of Body (2012), at the South London Gallery, included aluminium casts of skirts — and recent drawings incorporate the tiny plastic microbeads — known as nurdles — used in cosmetics.

The few, carefully placed nurdles are like treasures hidden within the folds of the fabric and yet they wash up on shorelines across the world in large quantities, having a negative impact on our delicate marine ecosystem.

At sea these particles or nurdles float just below the water's surface like confetti or a powder held in suspension.

Every year, hundreds of millions of nurdles, tiny pieces of plastic, are dumped into or lost at sea, where they eventually make their way into the food chain by acting as sponges for a variety of anthropogenic chemicals (e.g. hydrocarbons and DDT).

When the turtles were hit by the nurdles and went grey, I felt a genuine sense of responsibility, which encouraged me to try again and do better.»

Once spilled, nurdles are impossible to clean up.

At a beach count held earlier this year, nurdles were found on 75 percent of UK beaches, even remote ones.

One of plastic's preliminary forms is nurdles, a.k.a. mermaid's tears.

Decribed by Speak Up For Blue, nurdles are