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> Anywhere between 52,140 tonnes and 184,290 tonnes of pellets entered the environment in the EU in 2019, according to the European Commission, which proposed t
by koliber 11mo ago
> Anywhere between 52,140 tonnes and 184,290 tonnes of pellets entered the environment in the EU in 2019, according to the European Commission, which proposed the regulations.
> "This is equivalent to between 2,100 and 7,300 trucks full of pellets per year," the Commission said.
How? These are unbelievable numbers. Did 2,100 - 7,300 trucks flip over and dump their nurdles into the environment? Are there steady nurdle-leaks which cause a percentage of them to escape? What percentage of nurdles escape rather than getting melted and molded into plastic end products?
- antonkochubey 11mo agoThat could be one medium-size container ship
- koliber 11mo agoThat does put it into perspective. At the same time, I don't think a medium-sized container ship of pellets is lost each year.