Environmental advocates hold beach cleanup in La Porte and demand lawmakers to act on pollutants

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2024/08/01/495390/environmental-advocates-hold-beach-cleanup-in-la-porte-and-demand-lawmakers-to-act-on-pollutants/

#EnergyEnvironment #Local #News #Nurdles #PlasticPellets #WaterPollution

RT by @anamirandapaz: Our friends @ecologistas have seen firsthand the havoc #plasticpellets have wreaked on Galician shores 💔
That's why we're meeting with MEPs 🇪🇺to ensure a strong plastic pellets regulation & a future with clean, pellet-free seas 🌊
@anamirandapaz @MiguelUrban @mmatias_

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/SeasAtRisk/status/1757788013738799376#m

[2024-02-14 15:24 UTC]

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/17/nurdle-collecting-plastic-pellets-beaches

https://strandliners.org/
#Strandliners #CitizenScience

A plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world’s oceans—
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281596

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/29/nurdles-plastic-pellets-environmental-ocean-spills-toxic-waste-not-classified-hazardous
#nurdles #plasticpellets #toxicwaste #oceans #MarineBiology

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es0010498
#microplastics #fossilfuels

EU to crack down further on microplastics after glitter ban | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/17/eu-to-crack-down-further-on-microplastics-after-glitter-ban

#Glitter
#MicroPlastics
#EU
#PlasticPellets