London, March 17, 2025 (AFP) - Plastic pellets spotted in water after North Sea ship crash

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2025-03-17

A retrieval operation is underway after plastic pellets, likely spilled in a crash between a cargo ship and a tanker off the coast of England, formed a "sheen" in the sea, the British coastguard said Monday. The UK's lifeboat service reported on Sunday seeing "a sheen that we now know to be plastic nurdles" close to the Wash, a large bay on the east coast of England, around 43 miles (70 kilometres) south of the site of last week's crash, accordin......

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