‘An oil spill in solid form’: Bio-bead disaster devastates beloved English coast

November 29, 2025

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Millions of bio-beads washed onto the southern English coast in November after a mechanical failure at a water treatment plant, representing one of the UK’s worst environmental disasters in years.

Andy Dinsdale began walking the southern English coast in search of a “sea heart,” a tough Mahogany seed carried by ocean currents from Central and South American rainforests. In his quest to find one, he inadvertently became a plastic pollution expe... [8788 chars]

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