Nurdles are small plastic pellets that wash up on our shores. The Mermaid Tear Catcher is a tool you can use to collect them.
We call these Nurdles “mermaid tears” because sea life is gravely affected by these plastic pollutants, hence the tears.
Trash/Litter4Tokens has developed the innovative Mermaid Tear Catcher (MTC), a scooping device with holes specifically demarcated allowing you to sieve the nurdles out of the dry sea or river sand. It is made from ocean-bound plastic, and all funds raised from the sales go towards the Litter4Tokens kiosks in South Africa, thereby encouraging a perfect, circular economy. When not used for collecting nurdles, it doubles as a fun frisbee!
The MTC can be ordered online at our partner non-profit Sea Hugger’s online store.
Record your “Mermaid Tears” Nurdle Collection!
This data will help contribute to the global picture of nurdle pollution as part of ‘The Great Global Nurdle Hunt’.
We collate the data with Fidra’s ‘The Great Nurdle Hunt’ – an international citizen science survey aimed at providing a global evidence base of plastic pellet, or ‘nurdle’, pollution; mapping out the presence of pellet pollution using volunteer submissions of nurdle finds. To find out more visit www.nurdlehunt.org.uk