The results of our third Great Global Nurdle Hunt, with more nurdles found than ever before.
This year we saw an increase in nurdle finds, with 90% of hunts finding nurdles (up from 79% and 87% of hunts finding nurdles in 2021 and 2020) suggesting nurdle pollution could be on the rise. These results clearly demonstrate that voluntary efforts by industry are not sufficient in addressing nurdle pollution and stresses the urgency for legislation to stop nurdle pollution once and for all.
Our biggest volunteer effort yet!
The 2022 event has been our biggest volunteer effort yet! With 1,365 volunteers taking part in nurdle hunts between 20th September and 17th October 2022. Across the world, nurdle hunters headed to beaches, rivers, and estuaries and spent a total of 1,383 hours hunting for these tiny plastic pellets -the equivalent of searching for 8 weeks straight!. An amazing achievement.
Over 4 weeks, 317 nurdle hunts were completed in 23 countries. Nurdles were found in all but one – Indonesia was the only country to not find nurdles. However, nurdles have been found in previous nurdle hunts carried out in Indonesia earlier in the year. Nurdles were found for the first time in Japan, Oman and South Korea.
Download and read the results report: The Great Global Nurdle Hunt 2022 (PDF)
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Posted On: 09/12/2022