Plastic Pellets Spotted In Water After North Sea Ship Crash

Source: International Business Times

A tugboat accompanies the stricken Solong cargo ship following a devastating crash in the North Sea off the Yorkshire coast AFP A retrieval operation is underway after plastic pellets, likely spilled in a crash between a cargo ship and a tanker off the coast of England, formed a "sheen" in the sea, the British coastguard said Monday. The UK's lifeboat service reported on Sunday seeing "a sheen that we now know to be plastic nurdles" close to the Wash, a large bay on the east coast of England, around 43 miles (70 kilometres) south of the site of last week's crash, according to the coastguard. Nurdles are 1-5 millimetre (0.