Spain investigates contamination of Atlantic shore by countless plastic pellets spilled from ship

Spain investigates contamination of Atlantic shore by countless plastic pellets spilled from ship

From a distance you can barely make them out but as you get closer they’re everywhere across the sand plastic microb beads sometimes called mermaids tears they are the building blocks for most of the world’s plastic production from car bumpers to bottles to salad bowls for several days now they’ve been

Washing up on the Northwestern beaches of Spain posing a threat to local Wildlife volunteers are working hard every day to collect them using whatever resources they have on hand we collecting the pallets all using household tools we are trying to clean up the beaches from a pet spill that occurred almost a month

Ago the minuscule pellets called nurdles began arriving on the coast of Spain’s Galia region after six containers fell from a merchant ship on the 8th of December one of the containers was loaded with bags full of the balls which spilled into the waters ingesting plastic is harmful for human health but

Nurdles also attract and bind chemical contaminants found in the sea to their surface making them potentially even more dangerous they could contain toxic substances which could therefore have certain repercussions on the forer which could ingest these pellets but also on the people who are currently going to

The beach as volunteers and who are handling these pellets the Spanish government and the local authorities have been trading blame over the slow response time to the Environmental disaster while State prosecutors have launched an investigation into its Origins

Countless tiny plastic pellets are washing up on the shores of northern Spain and local authorities declared an environmental emergency on Tuesday after a shipping container fell off a transport vessel last month. The regional governments of Galicia, which bears the brunt of the pollution, and neighboring Asturias region asked Spain’s national government to help. Spanish state prosecutors on Monday opened an investigation into the incident.
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