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Nurdles

Light sticks/swordfish tears

Learn more about lights sticks

Resin pellets are raw materials of various shapes (spherical, ovoid, cylindrical), sizes (1-10 mm in diameter) and colours (mostly clear, white or off-white), and are heated, melted and then molded into plastic products. Resin pellets can float around in the sea for years. Photo: ©Kansai Clean-up Office, Japan. Web site: http://www.page.sannet.ne.jp/m_terui/special_e.html

Ears plugs--safety gear from fishing boats and offshore oil rigs

Learn more about nurdles:

http://www.ecologycenter.org/iptf/toxicity/PlasticInvadesOcean.htmlhttp://www.algalita.org/initiatives.html

http://www.algalita.org/initiatives.html

Learn more about beach and marine trash:

http://marine-litter.gpa.unep.org/facts/facts.htm

http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/oceans/debris/

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/peril_marine_debris.html

http://www.aqd.nps.gov/pubs/yir/yir98/chapter02/chapter02pg1.html

Get Involved:
http://www.glo.state.tx.us/adopt-a-beach/

Shotgun  shells????  Please e-mail me if you know what these are

Children participating in the Pitch-In-Canada Week Campaign. Photo: Pitch-In-Canada. Web site: http://www.pitch-in.ca/

Gummy fish--lost fishing lures