The challenge 

Nurdles are a type of microplastic that flood the marine ecosystem and are therefore consumed by a variety of different organisms. These nurdles are full of toxins and chemicals from residual flows from agriculture and industry. As a result, they not only pose a danger to the marine ecosystem, but they can also cause enormous health risks for humans through bioaccumulation.

The solution

We are the Nurdle Soup team, a multidisciplinary student team with expertise in sustainable innovation, mechanical engineering, industrial design and data science. Our team is working on the development of a counting mechanism in order to obtain data about this still fairly unknown problem. We believe that with this data we can enforce a change in the conventional plastic industry. Ultimately we hope to be able to detect and prevent the leakage from industry.

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