nurdle n.— «Can anyone give me a factual account of how those little tiny plastic disks got into the sand in HB. I was born there in 1964 and for as long as I can remember they have been in the sand there, but not down in Laguna or San...
mermaid’s tear n.— «Instead of plankton, it was choked with a colorful array of tiny plastic fragments.…The jars were filled with plastic pellets the size and shape of pills. They come in all colors and are the raw material for a...
nurdle n.— «Instead of plankton, it was choked with a colorful array of tiny plastic fragments.…The jars were filled with plastic pellets the size and shape of pills. They come in all colors and are the raw material for a vast array...
Garbage Patch n.— «They were trapped in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a gigantic swirl of rotating water thousands of miles across, which is also known as the Garbage Patch.…Our oceans have become vast rubbish dumps and the...
outsert n.— «The supplement will come with the August issue in a “poly bag,” or plastic wrapper, making it what the magazine industry calls an outsert.» —“Exhortation From Gourmet: Eat, Drink and Buy...
crankbait n.— «Walleye regulars refer to night crawlers as “meat;” they also occasionally troll crankbaits such as Hot’n’Tots, referring to them as “plastic.”» —“Walleye numbers still...