The nurdles' quest for ocean domination - Kim Preshoff
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-nurdles-quest-for-ocean-domination-kim-preshoff Nurdles are the tiny, factory-made pellets that form the raw material for every plastic product...
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Meet the nurdles. They may be tiny, look harmless, and sound like a bunch of cartoon characters, but don't be fooled. These little guys are plotting ocean domination. Nurdles are some of the planet's most pervasive pollutants, found in lakes, rivers, and oceans across the globe. The tiny factory-made pellets form the raw material for every plastic product we use. And each year, billions of pounds of nurdles are produced, melted, and molded into toys, bottles, buttons, bags, pens, shoes, toothbrushes, and beads. They are everywhere. And they come in many guises, multi-colored and many-shaped, they range in size from just a few millimeters to mere specks that are only visible through a microscope. But their real advantage in the quest for ...
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Meet the nurdles. They may be tiny, look harmless, and sound like a bunch of cartoon characters, but don't be fooled. These little guys are plotting ocean domination. Nurdles are some of the planet's most pervasive pollutants, found in lakes, rivers, and oceans across the globe. The tiny factory-made pellets form the raw material for every plastic product we use. And each year, billions of pounds of nurdles are produced, melted, and molded into toys, bottles, buttons, bags, pens, shoes, toothbrushes, and beads. They are everywhere. And they come in many guises, multi-colored and many-shaped, they range in size from just a few millimeters to mere specks that are only visible through a microscope. But their real advantage in the quest for ...
