Have you heard about the X-Press Pearl

Have you heard about the X-Press Pearl container that caught on fire and sank in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka? Well, many predicted that there would be a huge impact on the environment as it carried tons of fuel oil, nitric acid, and methanol. However, it was the spillage of plastic nurdles from containers that had the greatest impact, not the fuel or the chemicals listed above. The nurdles can be appeared as a cluster of fish eggs and are mistakenly ingested by marine animals such as fish, seabirds, and crustaceans. The ingested nodule could be passed through the food webs from the filter feeders to apex predators causing the death of millions of animals