Supported by: Joe FitzPatrick* *S5M-12600 Iain Gray: Fidra and Plastic Pollution That the Parliament congratulates the — environmental charity, Fidra, which is based in East Lothian, and its staff and volunteers, on their work to eliminate the pollution that is caused by the nurdle pellets that are used in the manufacture of plastics and on their efforts to encourage and require plastics producers, users, transporters and trade associations to introduce best practice in pellet management through the campaign, Operation Clean Sweep; understands that these pellets can attract and concentrate pollutants such as DDT and PCBs to highly toxic levels; notes that in a survey carried out by Fidra volunteers in May on beaches in Fife, 450,000 washed-up nurdles were collected in under two hours from one beach at North Queensferry; understands that this beach is less than 15 miles from a polymers plant; believes that unacceptable levels of nurdles are being detected on beaches Wednesday 6 June 2018 17 Today's Business Future Business Motions & Questions Legislation Other Gnothaichean an-diugh Gnothaichean ri teachd Gluasadan agus Ceistean Reachdas Eile Motions | Gluasadan as far west as Barra and as far north as Collieston in Aberdeenshire, and calls on the Scottish Government to properly hold the plastics industry to account...