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Months after plastic pellets pollute Sri Lankan beaches, cleanup continues
Brut America
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3/25/2025
It is one of Sri Lanka's worst environmental disasters.
Last May, a sinking ship dumped billions of tiny plastic pellets in the waters surrounding Sri Lanka. Here's how the cleanup is going ...
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This is the most disastrous spill of noodles we are seeing in the world.
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As you can see, these beaches on the western coast of Sri Lanka are scattered with noodles.
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The real urgency is that if we don't remove these noodles as soon as possible, they will
00:51
get mixed up with the sand.
00:52
They will harm our marine environment, our marine life.
00:54
These are the pre-production blocks or the building blocks of any type of plastic item
00:55
out there.
00:56
And because they are in the size of a plastic bottle, we have to remove them as soon as
01:25
possible.
01:26
Because it's so small, it has become a challenge for anybody to really clean this.
01:27
We collect sand with the noodles into the sieve and you keep shaking until all the sand
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leaves the sieving tray and only the noodles are there.
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This is the most disastrous spill of noodles we are seeing in the world.
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As you can see, these beaches on the western coast of Sri Lanka are scattered with noodles
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So what we are going to do is put it in the water, shake it a little bit and we are going
02:41
to put it in the water.
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We don't know how long it will take to really clean up all these noodles.
02:47
We've understood from other countries where there have been noodle pollution that they
02:56
keep on happening, especially in Hong Kong, since 2011 there are still noodles washing
03:02
up on the shorelines.
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So we are trying to take this time to really remove as much noodles as possible.
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