Oodles of Nurdles?

The world is all to familiar with the devastating effects of marine disasters, releasing oil, acids, bases etc into fragile ecosystems. It is less familiar, however, with the dangers of 'non-toxic' nurdles. Nurdles are pre-production plastic pellets. They are lentil-sized beads of polyethylene; polypropylene; polystyrene; polyvinyl chloride and other plastics. Depending on their density and whether they are in salty or fresh water, nurdles either sink or float. They can also often be mistaken for food by fish; seabirds and other marine organisms (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/29/nurdles-plastic-pellets-environmental-ocean-spills-toxic-waste-not-classified-hazardous). In May 2021, a container ship, the X-Press Pearl, caught fire and sank off the coast of Sri Lanka. The sinking released circa 1680 tonnes of nurdles into the Indian Ocean. This was, to that date, the largest ever spill of these plastic pellets. Nurdles have been washing up in their billions on the coastline of Sri Lanka. They are also coming ashore in Indonesia, Malaysia and Somalia. The pellets have been found locally in the bodies of dead dolphins, the mouths of fishes etc. The UN have now classified the X-Press Pearl nurdle release, as Sri Lanka's worst ever marine disaster. Nurdles are not even classed as hazardous! This is plastic pollution on a massive and immediate scale!