| Hundreds of millions of tiny plastic pellets, or nurdles, are lost or spilled every year, working their way into the sea. |
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| One study estimated that nurdles now account for 10 percent of plastic ocean debris. |
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| Approximately 60 billion pounds of nurdles are manufactured annually in the United States alone. |
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| Ballance has had enough of the nudges and nurdles though so slams him over long-off for a well overdue boundary. |
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| Moore collected baseball-size gelatinous animals called salps and found their translucent tissues clogged with bits of monofilament fishing line and nurdles. |
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| It was a century bolted together from edges, nudges, nurdles, in which more than half his runs were scored behind the wicket. |
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| Thorpe nurdles another single to midwicket, before Giles helps a leg-bye to long leg. |
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| The parents feed their young chicks by regurgitating food into their mouths, food they've gathered at sea that includes nurdles, bottle caps, pieces of fish nets, toothbrushes, cigarette lighters. |
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| He ran threes, from his own bat and his partner's, as hard as he had all innings and still found the boundary, all between uncharacteristic leaves and defensive nurdles that required restraint that few knew he possessed. |
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| But it was full of characteristic touches, prods and nurdles. |
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| Nurdles are also created through the physical weathering of larger plastic debris. |
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| Nurdles, also known as mermaids' tears, are plastic pellets typically under five millimetres in diameter, and are a major contributor to marine debris. |
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