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‘No one cares about the little guy’: plastic nurdles still washing ashore in Sri Lanka five years after toxic spill

A stricken container ship shed tonnes of the tiny pellets on the west coast in May 2021. Today, locals are counting the cost to marine life and livelihoods On the beach in Pamunugama, on Sri Lanka’s west coast, women in uniform work under…

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