The Port of Tyne met with green campaigners for the first time this week, and was now backing a multi-agency clean-up “where safe to do so”, after a billion plastic pellets washed up

The Port of Tyne met with green campaigners for the first time this week, and was now backing a multi-agency clean-up “where safe to do so”, after a billion plastic pellets washed…

The incident has been dubbed Europe’s worst ever nurdle pollution incident. On 19 July tonnes of tiny beads, known as nurdles, entered the River Tyne when a vessel struck a…