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Communities Around the World Find Plastic Pellets in Their Local Waterways

Inside Climate News · By Lauren Dalban · last updated
The International Plastic Pellet Count reveals what volunteers in 29 states and Washington D.C. found.

By Lauren Dalban

This spring, citizen scientists across the country and the globe participated in the International Plastic Pellet Count, collecting small, usually round so-called “nurdles” on the shores of their local waterways.