The lasting toxic legacy of cargo ship disaster revealed, for BBC online and TV news
Four years after a stricken cargo ship caused the largest plastic spill ever recorded, volunteers on Sri Lanka’s beaches are still sifting kilograms of tiny, toxic plastic pellets from the sand.
Scientists are now flagging fears the damage to the environment could be much more enduring than previously thought.
So far, hundreds of millions of nurdles may have been cleared away – but the remaining, lentil-sized microplastic granules have become increasingly difficult to find as they disappear deeper into the sand.
Worse, those pieces of plastic now appear to be becoming even more toxic, new research suggests.
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