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“The sinking of the X-Press Pearl – and spill of chemical products and plastic pellets into the seas of Sri Lanka – caused untold damage to marine life and destroyed local livelihoods,” says Hemantha Withanage, director of the Centre for Environmental Justice in Sri Lanka.
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In December 2019, the Ocean Cleanup crew returned from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with its first load of plastic waste gathered from the ocean during a pilot test of its trash-collecting technology (System 001/B.) After this successful load of garbage was acquired, the team came to their next challenge...
ADHD anon here. Thank you for such a comprehensive answer! I'm going to see if I can find a cheap tangle, some putty, and a prickly stress ball just to try, and I think I'll get some nice yarn and make myself a weighted plushie too (I crochet plushies for a living so tossing in something to give it weight won't be that difficult). Again, thank you so much! Searching through a lot of spread-out information is really difficult for me so your master posts have helped a lot!!
No worries, anon! If you have any more questions or need help in the way of finding things, please let me know. I’d also love to hear how the toys go for you!
And if you ever want to show us your crochet plushie store, I suspect my followers (and myself!) will check out your creations.
(If you’re Aussie, I happened across plastic pellets for weighting plush toys this week in Riot Art and Craft stores, on sale at $3 AUD for a 500 gram bag!)
I want to make a bean bag from this soft fabric j got recently but I'm having trouble thinking of something to fill it with that I either already have or can easily get. Do you happen to know of any household or easily found stuff I could use to fill it?
Yes I do, anon!
Edible possibilities include rice (just use whatever’s cheapest), beans (kidney beans, black beans, any dried bean), split peas (green or yellow), lentils or my favourite, as it contains everything but rice, soup mix. (The Italian soup mix has more beans!) These are all dried items with no seasonings that, if you don’t let them get wet, will keep infinitely. (If they get wet, they can mould; if there’s barley in your soup mix, it can even sprout.) Other alternatives include seeds, but make sure you use unsalted ones, as salted seeds can stain your fabric. However, rice is usually easier to find for most of us, so I’d recommend that over seeds.
I really like the soup mix because you get lots of different shapes and sizes, meaning you can poke through the fabric at the contents of the bean bag and have the stimminess of trying to find the larger beans or identify the different shapes. Plus the noise they make when tossed, rattling together, is gorgeous!
Non-edible possibilities include the very fine decorative gravel I talk about in this post. (I bought mine from a dollar shop, but this may not be universal.) This has weight without being too heavy and rattles instead of clanking.
My inclination is that rice may exist in your cupboard already, but if not, rice and beans and soup mix should be easily sourced from your local supermarket.
(If you ever want to wash the bean bag, you’ll just need to unpick the top seam and empty out the filling before laundering, then replace filling and resew that seam. Mine have yet to get that dirty, though.)
If you want your bean bag to be durable (washing without unpicking) you’ll need to go for the decorative gravel above or poly pellets. (There’s an ebay listing, a $15 AUD BIN for 3 kilograms plus $14 AUD shipping. These things are expensive once you factor in shipping. It might be worth checking your local ebay to see what options you have, if this is a concern.) But, as an adult stimmer who’s careful with my things, I’m yet to find this absolutely necessary, and rice is so much cheaper!
Good luck. If you want to show off your creation, anon, I think we’d all love to see what you make!
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A nurdle is a bead of pure plastic. It is the basic building block of almost all plastic products, like some sort of synthetic ore; their creators call them “pre-production plastic pellets” or “resins.” Every year, trillions of nurdles are produced from natural gas or oil, shipped to factories around the world, and then melted and poured into molds that churn out water bottles and sewage pipes and steering wheels and the millions of other plastic products we use every day. An estimated 200,000 metric tons of nurdles make their way into oceans annually. The beads are extremely light, around 20 milligrams each. That means, under current conditions, approximately 10 trillion nurdles are projected to infiltrate marine ecosystems around the world each year.
Neel Dhanesha, ‘The massive, unregulated source of plastic pollution you’ve probably never heard of’, Vox