Nurdle have again been at Camber beach and Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, working to clear the beach of bio-beads and microplastics, and they estimate that they have removed over six and a half million microplastics to date. This follows the release, in November 2025, of millions of plastic bio-beads from Southern Water’s Eastbourne water treatment works which have washed up in huge quantities on the beach at Camber Sands and in the saltmarsh of the reserve.
Nurdle is working with Southern Water to clear the bio-beads using a screener which covers a large area quickly.
Nurdle’s latest invention, the Micro Plastic Screener, shown in the feature image, is designed to be loaded with a digger and travel along the beach at a rate of 25 metres a day on average, and to remove pollution to a depth of 400mm.
Vacuum removal for sensitive areas such as the nature reserve continues.
Josh Beech and his team are working hard with the aim to make their contributions in Camber “the most successful pellet clean-up response globally, setting the benchmark and establishing the best remediation strategies.”
A Camber Sands Cleanup Tracker, which shows the live progress of the screening operation, can be found here.
Image Credits: Nurdle .