Sri Lanka braces for fallout of sunken cargo ship’s toxic payload

Mongabay
Jun 16, 2021, 2:58 pm276 pts
COLOMBO — Along the shoreline north of Colombo, Sri Lanka’s commercial capital, the beaches are littered with millions of tiny white pellets, each about the size of a peppercorn. “The polyethylene pellets can be seen everywhere along the beaches,” says Mala Damayanthi Amarasinghe, a senior professor at…

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