Nurdle spill cleanup is 'too little, too late' as plastic pellets continue to spread, gather in drifts

“It’s been deeply disturbing,” Katie Rompf, a Loyola research assistant, said Friday. “It breaks my heart thinking about birds eating these and dying, and that this can affect the whole ecosystem.”

Interesting article about the continuing cleanup effort of the plastic pellets that were spilled near New Orleans. It's a shame, the environmental efforts will probably never really be measured, the small animals that ingest these pellets can't be seen. And the responsible party didn't even pay a fine, something is not right here.....

Read the full story here.....
https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_9b56e060-ef8c-11ea-bb00-73582b1649de.html