The Telegraph
The madcap inventors battling Britain’s nurdle invasion
Volunteers and local inventors using homemade sieves, nets and prototype machines to recover pellets after the Port of Tyne spill.
In the news
A short selection of newspaper and broadcast reports on the community effort. Headlines open the original articles.
BBC News
Plastic nurdle spill an ‘environmental disaster’
Tyne Rivers Trust says fish have already been found with nurdles in their system, and warns the pellets could stay in the river for years.
BBC News
Nurdles clean-up volunteers meet Port of Tyne boss
Campaigners hand an open letter to chief executive Matt Beeton and discuss next steps after pellets washed up along the north-east coast.
The Guardian
‘There’s no nurdle fairy’: thousands mobilise to clean up plastic spillage in north-east England
Volunteers gather at beaches with dustpans, sieves and homemade mesh bags after a ship collision spilled pellets into the Tyne.
BBC News
Port of Tyne criticised over nurdle spill response
A boom was not put in the water until three days after the collision. Thousands of volunteers had already begun clearing beaches.
BBC News
Damaged containers cleaned of nurdles, port says
Specialist teams vacuum remaining pellets from the split containers, while nurdles continue to wash up from South Shields to Sunderland.
The Northern Echo
North East mayor demands ship owners fund Tyne nurdle clean-up
Kim McGuinness writes to Cadeler and BG Freight Line, arguing the polluter should pay rather than North East taxpayers.
BBC News
Mayor hits out at port’s response to pellets spill
North Tyneside mayor Karen Clark says the Port of Tyne did not act quickly enough as pellets continue to wash up days after the crash.