Port of Tyne saying "ooh, look, we've done the easy bit" by hovering up the stuff that was still in the containers is getting positive coverage, but missing the fact that the stuff left in the containers was very much *not the fucking issue here*
Alison StenningDamaged containers cleared of nurdles, but meanwhile a billion of them are washing up the Tyne, onto our beaches and into the sea. This is perhaps one of the biggest plastic pollution events in the UK. And yet there’s almost no national coverage.