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DAE notice people keep bagging the plastic pellets as sand toys
Last Saturday at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, our crew filled 14 bags in two hours, and I watched four different folks pick up those little white nurdles and toss them into a kid's toy bucket. They look like beads or fish eggs, but each one is raw plastic that soaks up toxins and never breaks down. I know because I spent 20 minutes on my hands and knees with a sifter and got maybe a cupful, while the tide kept bringing in more. If you see a bunch of tiny white dots that move like sand but float, grab them, they are not shells. Has anyone found a faster way to scoop nurdles without losing half the beach in the process?
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laura_ross15d ago
Kinda disagree on the "don't lose half the beach" part, a cheap wire kitchen strainer works great and you don't need to haul buckets of sand home. Also not sure the toy bucket thing is really the problem, most folks just don't know what nurdles are. A quick "hey those are plastic, here's a jar" usually gets people helping instead of walking off.
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