{"id":138339,"date":"2025-03-18T07:55:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T05:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/what-are-nurdles-sheen-of-plastic-pellets-spotted-in-the-north-sea-after-ship-crash\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T07:55:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T05:55:46","slug":"what-are-nurdles-sheen-of-plastic-pellets-spotted-in-the-north-sea-after-ship-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/what-are-nurdles-sheen-of-plastic-pellets-spotted-in-the-north-sea-after-ship-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"What are nurdles? \u2018Sheen\u2019 of plastic pellets spotted in the North Sea after ship crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138339\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Small pellets of plastic are washing up on the east coast of England following the fiery collision of two ships in the North Sea last week. The crash between an oil tanker and cargo ship on 10 March initially raised concerns for local wildlife, as the US tanker, Stena Immaculate, leaked some of the jet fuel it had been carrying into the water. Portuguese-flagged cargo ship Solong was initially feared to have been transporting a hazardous chemical, adding to a toxic cocktail in the ocean, but the owner clarified this was not the case.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is posing a different threat to wildlife, however, according to an update from the UK\u2019s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) on 17 March. Nurdles are the tiny building blocks of the plastic industry. The small pellets of plastic &#8211; measuring between 1-5mm in size &#8211; are melted down and reformed to make the many items in our lives, from bottles to computers. These microplastics are often shipped across the world in large containers but don\u2019t tend to come to our attention unless something has gone seriously wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The largest recorded nurdle spill at sea occurred in 2021 when the X-Press pearl shipwreck saw 1,680 tonnes of nurdles spilt into the ocean and onto the shores of Sri Lanka. In Europe, coastal communities in northern Spain faced a \u201cwhite tide\u201d of pellets last January after a ship lost six containers overboard off the coast of Portugal in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/03\/17\/what-are-nurdles-sheen-of-plastic-pellets-spotted-in-the-north-sea-after-ship-crash\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/6-675\/\">What are nurdles? \u2018Sheen\u2019 of plastic pellets spotted in the North Sea after ship crash<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,2867,13554,18251],"class_list":["post-138339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-north-sea","tag-plastic-pellets","tag-ship-crash"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}