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‘Nurdles are everywhere’: how plastic pellets ravaged a Sri Lankan paradise

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Guardian (International Edition)

Publication Date
2022-01-25

When Adnan Sheikh took his family on holiday to Sri Lanka last October, he booked them into a hotel for two weeks in Sarakkuwa beach, just off the coast from where the X-Press Pearl cargo ship caught fire and sank five months previously.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/25/nurdles-are-everywhere-how-plastic-pellets-ravaged-a-sri-lankan-paradise