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    • Sack of Plastic pellets (granule, nurdle) for rotation moulding.
    Rights: SuSanA Secretariat, CC BY 2.0 Published 30 August 2019 Size: 810 KB Referencing Hub media

    Plastic resin pellets or nurdles are used as the raw materials in the production of plastic items. Nurdles are found throughout the marine environment.

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      Microplastics

      Microplastics are very small plastic particles generally less than 5 mm in size. Some people also distinguish microplastics from even smaller plastics, termed nanoplastics, that are less than ...

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