{"id":1428,"date":"2019-04-19T09:28:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T09:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gkprojects.org\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2025-12-04T18:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:16:15","slug":"a-beach-next-to-a-comercial-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/en\/2019\/04\/19\/a-beach-next-to-a-comercial-port\/","title":{"rendered":"A beach covered in pellets"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1428\" class=\"elementor elementor-1428 elementor-21120\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8cb5774 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8cb5774\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-29ebd77\" data-id=\"29ebd77\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3810175 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3810175\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Every hour thousands of plastics enter our oceans and that has become obvious in most of the places we know.<\/h4><p>A normal day at the beach can become quite interesting if you decide to check how much plastic you can find, and even more interesting, if your beach is next to a commercial port.\u00a0<br \/>Do you know what is a &#8216;mermaid tear&#8217;? We found millions of it. &#8216;Mermaid tear&#8217; is the name given to the plastic pellets found on the beach.<\/p><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1433 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/gkprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CARMEN-MODIFICADA-HILO-7-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CARMEN-MODIFICADA-HILO-7-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CARMEN-MODIFICADA-HILO-7-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CARMEN-MODIFICADA-HILO-7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CARMEN-MODIFICADA-HILO-7-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CARMEN-MODIFICADA-HILO-7.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p><h5><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8955 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/gkprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/pellets-microplastics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1274\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/pellets-microplastics.jpg 1274w, https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/pellets-microplastics-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/pellets-microplastics-768x406.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/pellets-microplastics-1024x542.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/pellets-microplastics-600x317.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1274px) 100vw, 1274px\" \/><\/h5><p><strong>What are plastic pellets?<\/strong><\/p><p>Pellets or nurdles as they are often called, are pre production plastic resin pellets.\u00a0 Essentially raw plastic before it has been made into an end use item such as a plastic bag, bottle or toy.<\/p><p><strong>How they arrive to our beaches?<\/strong><\/p><p>Plastic pellets are transported from the manufacturing plant to factories via trucks, trains and cargo containers on ships and spills can occur during manufacture as well as throughout transportation.\u00a0 As pellets are extremely lightweight and float in water they can easily end up in drains, rivers and the sea.\u00a0 Manufacturing plants and transportation companies have a responsibility to ensure safety of their product and they should implement best practices throughout their chain to minimise risk.<\/p><p class=\"wsite-content-title\"><strong>How can they be cleaned off the beach?<\/strong><\/p><div class=\"paragraph\">It is extremely difficult and time consuming to remove pellets from beaches once they are there.\u00a0 Usually they are sporadic throughout the sand and it is a case of picking them out individually.\u00a0 When there are greater concentrations of them (for example after a big spill) there are various methods that can be implemented including industrial vacuum cleaners.<br \/>Pellets can be removed with the use of sieves and manually sifting the sand or through sand separation and flotation (sand sinks &amp; pellets float).<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><p class=\"wsite-content-title\"><strong>How can they be removed from the water?<\/strong><\/p><div class=\"paragraph\">If there has been a major spill in or near water with aggregating pellets, fine mesh nets can be used to scoop and remove them but once the pellets are in the water they disperse very quickly and they are very difficult to see on the surface.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1440 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gkprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot-2019-05-19-at-12.11.31-1024x426.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot-2019-05-19-at-12.11.31-1024x426.png 1024w, https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot-2019-05-19-at-12.11.31-600x249.png 600w, https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot-2019-05-19-at-12.11.31-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot-2019-05-19-at-12.11.31-768x319.png 768w, https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot-2019-05-19-at-12.11.31.png 1390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1441 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/gkprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot-2019-05-19-at-12.12.04.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot-2019-05-19-at-12.12.04.png 1000w, https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot-2019-05-19-at-12.12.04-600x292.png 600w, https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot-2019-05-19-at-12.12.04-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot-2019-05-19-at-12.12.04-768x373.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p><p>What you see in our pictures is not us trying to clean up the pellets spilling. We were there to quantify and analyse\u00a0through\u00a0different methods what was the concentration of pellets in the beach we use to surf. Our conclusion: 30 to 90 millions pellets are hide in the sand of our beach.<\/p><p>The complete results of our investigation were share with others organisations and local authorities for further examination and action.<\/p><p class=\"direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\">\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every hour thousands of plastics enter our oceans and that has become obvious in most of the places we know. A normal day at the beach can become quite interesting if you decide to check how much plastic you can find, and even more interesting, if your beach is next to a commercial port.&nbsp; Do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"boxed-container","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-med-plastic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A beach covered in pellets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/en\/2019\/04\/19\/a-beach-next-to-a-comercial-port\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A beach covered in pellets\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Every hour thousands of plastics enter our oceans and that has become obvious in most of the places we know. 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