In October 2017, Durban experienced a catastrophic storm. A container ship at the Durban Harbour was damaged and billions of little plastic pellets, nurdles, leaked into the ocean. It is estimated that around 49 tons (billions of pellets) of these nurdles are in our ocean – an environmental disaster!
The efforts reported were collated by the east coast Department of Environmental Affairs – Working for Coast, the formal Directive driven DRIZIT / RESOLVE Marine Group, SAAMBR, WILDOCEANS’ teams and volunteer coordinated response through the KZN Waste Network.
To date, a total of 4.117 tonnes have been collected by all parties combined.
Between 20th – 30th November 2017, 340.5 bags of nurdles were collected from 15 different locations in KZN including Amatikulu, Dokodweni, Umhlanga, North Beach and Umkomaas.
Teams will continue to work along the KZN coastline actively collecting nurdles.
If you find and collect nurdles, place them in a sealed bag and take them to your nearest drop off point – a list of drop off points can be found here: https://www.saambr.org.za/
WILDTRUST (registered as the Wildlands Conservation Trust - IT No: 4329/1991/PMB)