Clean up of nurdle-polluted Southampton Chessel Bay nature reserve

Specially-designed equipment is being used to remove the microplastics from the shoreline.

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Chessel Bay on the banks of the River Itchen has been blighted by millions of nurdles, plastic pellets washed ashore. Josh Beech of Nurdle.org said the site was suffered from a "devastating" amount of plastic pollution.The firm estimates more than 90 million pieces of plastic were picked up in a five-day clean up earlier this year.Image source,A series of week-long clean ups, funded by the Environment Agency, are being carried out to suck up the nurdles that get dispersed or embedded in the landscape.

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