{"id":48740,"date":"2025-05-29T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=48740"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:32:56","slug":"nurdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nurdles\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurdles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Nurdles Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, tiny plastic pellets (nurdles) were found on beaches in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala following the sinking of the container vessel MSC ELSA3.<\/p>\n<h2>About Nurdles<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These aresmall pre-formed masses of moulding material that have\u00a0<strong>relatively uniform dimensions\u00a0<\/strong>within a specific batch. These pellets are utilised as raw material in moulding and extrusion operations.<\/li>\n<li>When in the\u00a0<strong>form of microplastics<\/strong>, these pellets are commonly referred\u00a0<strong>to as \u2018nurdles\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0and serve as the foundational material for manufacturing a wide range of plastic products.<\/li>\n<li>They are classified as\u00a0<strong>primary microplastics<\/strong>, these pellets and are\u00a0<strong>between 1 mm to 5 mm<\/strong>\u00a0in diameter. They constitute a major component in the global plastic chain.<\/li>\n<li>Microplastic nurdles are mainly composed of\u00a0<strong>polyethene, polypropylene, polystyrene, and polyvinyl chloride.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These pellets are melted and moulded into various products, including packaging, water bottles, toys, and textiles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Impact of Nurdles on Environment<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These pellets remain a\u00a0<strong>dangerous pollutant<\/strong>. Their short- and long-term impacts include\u00a0<strong>habitat contamination\u00a0<\/strong>and their breaking up into micro and nano plastics and\u00a0<strong>entering the food chain.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They could have serious implications for the\u00a0<strong>marine and coastal ecosystems and humans<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Nurdles FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the meaning of microbeads?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Microbeads are tiny pieces of plastic, often microscopic in size, that are added to a range of products, including rinse-off cosmetics, personal care and cleaning products.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:\u00a0<\/strong>What are nurdles used for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:\u00a0<\/strong>Nurdles are melted down and made into many plastic items, from clothes to cars, food wrappers to artificial Christmas trees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/plastic-pellets-found-on-kerala-coast-after-shipwreck-pose-serious-environmental-impact-warn-experts\/article69627808.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nurdles are small, uniform plastic pellets used as raw material in moulding and extrusion processes for manufacturing various plastic products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[627,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-48740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-nurdles","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}