”Nurdles”: A Marine Plastic Pollution Source

The major source of ocean plastic pollution you’ve probably never heard of (Claire GWINNETT, The Conversation; February 14, 2019)

https://theconversation.com/the-major-source-of-ocean-plastic-pollution-youve-probably-never-heard-of-111687

Global plastic pollution:  The impact of ‘nurdles’ (Madeleine BERG, Fidra; January 2019)

https://www.envchemgroup.com/impact-nurdles.html

Selected Research Articles:

High concentrations of plastic hidden beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean (PABORTSAVA and LAMPITT, 2020)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17932-9

Microplastics:  an introduction to environmental transport processes  (HORTON and DIXON, 2017)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alice_Horton/publication/322107763_Microplastics_An_introduction_to_environmental_transport_processes/links/5a4b7505458515f6b05c0f2f/Microplastics-An-introduction-to-environmental-transport-processes

Plastics in the Marine Environment:  The Dark Side of a Modern Gift (HAMMER et al., 2012)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_Parsons3/publication/225049699_Plastics_in_the_Marine_Environment_The_Dark_Side_of_a_Modern_Gift/links/0912f5072f10dd513a000000/Plastics-in-the-Marine-Environment-The-Dark-Side-of-a-Modern-Gift.pdf?origin=publication_detail

Plastic Debris in California Marine Ecosystem:  A Summary of Current Research, Solution Efforts and Data Gaps ( STEVENSON, 2011)

https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/291/docs/Plastic_Report_lowres.pdf

Website:

Nurdles:  preproduction plastics (Fidra)

https://www.fidra.org.uk/nurdles/

Video:

The Trouble with Nurdles (Board Web Support; June 21, 2015)