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She said hundreds of children and parents came to the beach to assist
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Volunteers from Pirates Surf club help to gather up thousands of tiny plastic pellets known as nurdles. All photos: Pirates Surf
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The bags of pellets fell from a container at sea and were washed ashore, said Candy Fanucci, who leads the Pirates Surf Rescue Dubai and Abu Dhabi group
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Surfers saw the pellets on the beach around 11am on Sunday, said Ms Fanucci, who led the clean-up
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Volunteers at work
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Ms Fanucci said tonnes of plastic were littering the sand
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She said hundreds of children and parents came to the beach to assist
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Volunteers from Pirates Surf club help to gather up thousands of tiny plastic pellets known as nurdles. All photos: Pirates Surf
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The bags of pellets fell from a container at sea and were washed ashore, said Candy Fanucci, who leads the Pirates Surf Rescue Dubai and Abu Dhabi group
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Surfers saw the pellets on the beach around 11am on Sunday, said Ms Fanucci, who led the clean-up
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Volunteers at work
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Ms Fanucci said tonnes of plastic were littering the sand
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She said hundreds of children and parents came to the beach to assist
Thousands of microplastic 'nurdles' wash up on Dubai beach
Beach cleared of tiny pellets that fell from a container at sea
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20 February, 2023
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