Visit our new website about nurdles at www.NurdlePatrol.org.
What are nurdles? Nurdles are very small plastic pellets used in the manufacture of plastic products.
Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science project lead by the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas, Texas. We are looking to gather information about where nurdles are located across Texas and the rest of the Gulf of Mexico, remove the nurdles from the environment, and create awareness about the nurdle issue. Nurdles are small plastic pellets and are the basis of everything plastic. They are small and look like food to animals, and they absorb chemicals in the environment, so could be harmful to some animals.
Want to participate in collecting data, here are the instructions below, and click here for a training video.
-Find the high tide line with nurdles.
-Collect nurdles for 10 minutes.
-Write down number of nurdles collected, location, and date.
-Take a picture of nurdles.
-Add/submit data to www.NurdlePatrol.org
-Done!
Any question? Contact Jace@utexas.edu
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For latest data and information, visit www.NurdlePatrol.org