While the biggest, most visible piles of nurdles have been removed, it’s just the tip of the iceberg, says Hemantha Withanage, director and environmentalist at the Centre for Environmental Justice in Sri Lanka. One important type of plastic litter is plastic production pellets (also known as nurdles or resin pellets), which are the base materials for most commercial plastics. 19 They have been reported from beaches as far apart as in Japan, Hawaii, Malta and Lake Ontario, Canada. 9,20–22 and are the most numerous item of plastic litter on many Mediterranean beaches. 21 Trace metals are known to sorb to their surface. 23 Due to their abundance, production pellets make a good choice to investigate how microplastics are affected by weathering.

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