WThe chicken is a Lippierian container ship, MSC Elsa 3, turned and sank 13 miles off the coast of Kerala state, in India, on May 25, a disaster was announced at the state level quickly. A long oil spot of a bowl of 184 meters, which carried a dangerous shipment, was partially treated by dispersal from the transportation of planes, while the rescue process is sealed to prevent leaks.
But after nearly three months, an environmental disaster continues to be treacherous and continuous along the fragile coast from the environment of the Arabian Sea. Of the 643 containers on the plane, 71,500 bags of small plastic pellets known as Nurdles were. By July, only 7,920 was recovered.
Millions of these plastic balls continued to wash the beach with the fierce seasonal storm that was destroyed along the palm beach in therofananthapuram, the capital of Kerala state, in June. They are lying widespread from the Catholic Church facing the sea in Vettukadu and in the tidal lines on the beach, where the giant gout achieved, gathered by the volunteers, pending its collection.
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“Nurdles has not contaminated the sea – they have disrupted our entire life.”
Since then, a hunting ban has been lifted, imposed after domain by local authorities in four areas of Kerala, but fears of pollution have been hit fishing communities that are already struggling with the number of fish and changing climate storms.
“The few people are now ventured to the sea because the local markets simply do not buy fish,” says Shangcemukham.
Those who report the window -full nets and reject the hungry. “People are still worried about pollution,” says Shangomokham.
While 100,000 fish hunting families have received compensation of 1,000 rupees (8.50 pounds) from the state, this represents an income of less than a week for most. “The crisis has fallen into many families in poverty,” he says.
Nurdles, a colloquial term for plastic cells, is the raw material used for almost all plastic products. The size of the lentils, between 1-5 mm, and thus classifying them as microblasts, or fragments smaller than 5 mm, can be devastating wildlife, especially fish, shrimp and sea birds that make them wrong. It also serves as “toxic sponges” that attract the so -called chemicals forever, such as dual -chlorine vinyl compounds and PFAs in sea water on their roofs, as well as carrying harmful bacteria such as E Coli.
“When she likes marine life, these pellets offer a cocktail of toxins directly in the food network,” says Joseph Vegayan, an environmental researcher from therovananninthporam. “Toxins can accumulate in individual animals and increase the concentration of the food chain, which ultimately affects humans who consume seafood.”
Microleum plastic is found in human blood, brains, breast milk, placenta, home and bone marrow. Its complete effect on human health is unclear, but it has been linked to strokes and heart attacks.
Vijayan says that the leakage site and its timing were not worse. Almost half of the sea fish in India landed in the Malabar Upweling area, where the shipwreck occurred.
The turbulent monsoon season in Kerala state, from June to August, which hindered cleaning operations, is the time of great marine productivity, when the high -rich water -rich water flowers brings the basis of the marine food network.
An anxiety, after Keralan’s state leakage, reports of Nordels was washed again on the beaches in Sri Lanka, a reminder of the worst plastic pollution leakage registered in history when the X-Press pearl container, which carries chemicals, issued fire and issued 1,680 tons of Nordis in the sea off the lympo in 2021.
Environmental scientists say that the Kerala state disaster, the latest in a series of Pele’s spills, once again revealed huge gaps in accountability, transparency and organization in the supply chain of plastic materials.
Dharmesh Shah, a Kerala -based plastic activist in International Environmental Law CenterHe says: “These spills expose the nature transit nature to the pollution of granules, which affects the countries regardless of their role in plastic production.
“They reveal a chronic deficiency in the global implementable standards via the supply chain – from production to transport – along with insufficient transparency, reporting and accountability.”
Sekhar L Kuriakose, from the Kerala State, can take up to five years. The state presented a Requesting compensation 1.1 billion dollars (820 million pounds) Against msc. Container shipping company MSC, which rented the ship, along with the owner, has A counter -claim, judicial jurisdiction and seeking to reduce their responsibility.
But the consequences of Nurl’s spills are felt in the world. In March, Nordels washed on the British Coast of Norfolk after a container ship collided with a tanker in the North Sea. In January 2024, millions of pellets were washed on the coast of Spain.
Societies can wait years for compensation. It took it until last month to the highest court in Sri Lanka to judge that the owners of X-Press Pearl in Singapore In exchange for compensation 1 billion dollars In 2021, the “unprecedented destruction of the marine environment” and economic harm were drowned.
At least 445,000 tons of Nordels The environment is estimated annually all over the world; About 59 % of the ground spills, with the rest in the sea. The large number of spills in the sea increases, according to Fidra, a Scottish Environmental charity.
With the expectation that plastic production will reach more than 1 billion tons annually by 2060, along with more frequent and intense storms, the threat is expected to grow, as about 2 trailes leak into the environment per year. However, there are no international agreements on how to pack and transfer Nurdles safely, or even classify them as dangerous.
This week, delegates from more than 170 countries A meeting in the United Nations plastic pollution talks in GenevaTrying to resolve the deep divisions about whether plastic production will be included in a final treaty. Activists hope that successful talks will allow a global approach to the loss of granules, packaging, transportation and legal accountability.
“Because of the biological diversity in the region, Kerala’s leakage is destroyed. But after four years of X-PEARL XPress, he was expected,” says Amy Yongman, a lawyer for the Environmental Investigation Agency.
One of the problems is that ships are not required to reveal that they carry knees. Another is the failure to identify damage when spill. “They are not seen as dangerous or dangerous materials, so they are shipped like any other products,” she says.
She says human error causes most spills, adding that laws related to dealing with and storing pellets can reduce spills by 95 %.
A research paper published in June, which was co -authored by Teres Carlson, the scientific advisor to the International pollutants network Perhaps may have been distorted After exposure to chemicals hidden from the plastic debris and plastic from X-PEARL Express. Of the 16,000 chemicals in plastic, it is known that 4,000 are dangerous. “But for more than 10,000 of them, we do not know the health effects,” she says.