John,

Most plastic is made from tiny plastic pellets. These tiny plastic nurdles are often spilled during transport or dumped directly into our waterways, polluting our environment.

An estimated 200,000 metric tons of plastic pellets enter the ocean each year. Once they're in the environment, wildlife can mistake plastic pellets for food and eat them.1

Environment America Research & Policy Center is helping organize an International Plastic Pellet Count on May 3 to search for plastic nurdle pollution in our environment. Will you volunteer for the International Plastic Pellet Count on May 3 in your community?

The International Plastic Pellet Count is a chance for you to volunteer to visit your local waterway, look for plastic pellet pollution, and record what you find. When you volunteer, you're joining individuals from around the world to identify the places where these plastic pellets are a persistent problem.

Your plastic pellet count can take as little as 10 minutes. Spending a few minutes helping find and count plastic pellets at your local stream, river, lake or shoreline is a great way to take personal action to help put wildlife over waste. And you can invite your friends and family to help too!

Sign up to participate in the International Plastic Pellet Count on Saturday, May 3.

Thanks,

The team at Environment America Research & Policy Center

1. Neel Dhanesha, "The massive, unregulated source of plastic pollution you've probably never heard of," Vox, May 6, 2022.

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