KPIX CBS Overnight News July 13, 2024
Pellets, and this coxs creek. Reporter take a trip up cox creek off the gulf of mexico, and its impossible to miss this gigantic petrochemical factory. Thats a massive plant. Whats sometimes harder to see is whats finding its way out of it, plastic pellets, sometimes called nurdleles. How many pellets are going into the water on a daily basis. They managed to scoop up 79 billion in two years. Reporter diane wilson is a fourth generation fisher woman, who used to captain a fishing boat. This is the all over the bay. Reporter she is now an environmental activist, fighting one of the largest plas...