NUMBER OF THE DAY

Big Oil’s Toxic Plastic ‘Nurdles,’ by the Numbers

The tiny plastic pellets have become a big environmental problem

Marker Editors
Marker
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2 min readSep 1, 2020

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Number of the Day: 25 — How many approximate tons of plastic “nurdles” were recently spilled into the Mississippi River
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25 tons: That’s how many tiny plastic pellets called “nurdles” spilled into the Mississippi River near New Orleans earlier this month. (By Marker’s calculation, that works out to about 1.1 trillion nurdles.)

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