Overview RTP Company, whose headquarters is in Winona, Minnesota has applied for planning permission to build a Polymer Compounding Facility, under the name of a newly formed subsidiary, Daly Products, on the Baltimore Road Skibbereen. The factory they … Read More
Lorraine Shaab, a frequent visitor to our pages at ‘Save Our Skibbereen’ wrote to us recently about the scourge of Plastic Nurdles on their coastline at Wellington, New Zealand. In 2014, the issue of nurdles at Evans Bay beach, Wellington, … Read More
(This article is extracted from the EU funded Sea Change Project. Links below. Illustration by Marker Wizards Ltd.) Many of our waste products end up in the sea. This includes visible litter as well as invisible waste such as chemicals … Read More
I recently spent a day watching magnificent Finn Whales off the coast of West Cork with Colin Barnes, ‘Cork Whale Watch’. What a privilege it was to be in the company of these giants, being the second largest animal on … Read More
I’ve been fishing debris out of the river for several years. I began picking up floating trash to make the scenery more appealing to myself and other patrons of Speed River Paddling, a local Guelph kayak/canoe rental company. They used … Read More
The above image shows the point of outflow from the waste water treatment plant into the Ilen When an industry (as opposed to residential) discharges to the waste water treatment plant, there are often requirements to licence directly by the … Read More
The pre production polymer pellets or Nurdles get spilled in production, in road transport and in shipping. Each bulk truck can carry about 2 billion nurdles per load. This is such a big problem that the industry itself has an … Read More
The EPA in Ireland in their studies of plastic in the fresh water environment showed how the water slows down as it reaches the lower courses and so many of the plastic nurdles are deposited here, as shown above. These … Read More
