Volunteers are desperately racing against time to clean up the waves of plastic pellets being washed onto beaches amid fears the plastic could harm wildlife for years to come

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…