estimated, 230,000 metric tons of nurdles enter the world’s oceans each year, accounting for 24 percent of spilled microplastics and nearly 2 percent of total marine plastics.
The industry’s expansion is well underway on the Gulf Coast, long the hub for U.S. plastic production, with new plants opening and old ones growing. ExxonMobil and the Saudi petrochemical conglomerate SABIC just jointly fired up a giant new complex near Corpus Christi. Formosa recently completed a $5 billion expansion of the plant at the center of the nurdle case. Even before it was done, one of the company’s lawyers said the complex was producing a trillion pellets a day.
a $1 million settlement—and an agreement to make changes to prevent future spills—from Frontier Logistics, a plastics distribution company.Wilson is the fourth generation in her family to have earned a living on the waters tucked behind barrier islands on the Matagorda Bay system.
She bought a cheap kayak and started paddling on Cox Creek, which meanders right past Formosa’s 2,500-acre complex. She found one of the discharge points, a ditch “coming right from the plant. And it was going right to the fence, and it was going right into the creek,” she says. In one spot nearby, pellets carpeted the marshy shore, “like that deep,” she told me, holding her hands about five inches apart.
While the scale of Wilson’s evidence collection is unusual, the “citizen suit” has long been key to American environmental enforcement. Environmentalists now worry the Supreme Court may‘You’ll never get through counting them’ Data is trickling in from elsewhere in the country, and it offers a glimpse of nurdles’ reach—reds on the Great Lakes; near Philadelphia and Trenton, New Jersey; around Charleston, South Carolina; and in the Pacific Northwest. Only one state, California, bars nurdle discharges, Tunnell says.Nurdle Patrol encourages participants to use their data to push political leaders for tighter regulations.
Later they will make own way up the hill and then by adding the so-called 'saving and cleverness'.... we are doing the world around us a disservice. We see the effects and complain instead of changing together our approach.
sanctions for breaking regulations are one thing...maybe future companies should first be shown which ecological zones they will affect,make the standards known and explain why.Many companies are harmed by insufficient access to data and charts or too complicated a way to obtain.
The power off one lead to many, welldone
One minor country.. Since the campaigns against single use plastics has taken off in 'some' Western countries there was a small blip in sales before the curve turned sharply up and the use of plastics increased by over 400% globally. That's not a win, it's a disaster. 🤣
: Un'importante causa dei cittadini contro una gigantesca azienda di plastica ha portato a un enorme pagamento e a un impegno a fare meglio. Il caso ha provocato increspature di cambiamento in un'industria che spesso inquina impunemente.
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