We’re fortunate that Charleston Waterkeeper and the Coastal Conservation League were willing to use federal laws to pursue a lawsuit against Frontier Logistics, since DHEC walked away from the matter after Frontier denied any wrongdoing. When nurdles started washing up on the beach in the summer of 2019, Frontier was packaging the plastic pellets for overseas transportation in a Union Pier facility directly over the Cooper River. Frontier and the State Ports Authority split the $150,000 cost for an initial cleanup, and DHEC initially cited the company for the spill and ordered Frontier to install nurdle-catching nets around the shipping wharf.