If you manufacture, transport, or handle plastic resin pellets, you already know how easily a few nurdles can become a few thousand. They're small, lightweight, and buoyant, exactly the kind of pollutant that conventional drainage systems were never designed to stop.
That's the gap LittaTrap™ with a dedicated nurdle liner is built to close.
Pre-production plastic pellets often called nurdles are used across plastic manufacturing and packaging industries. They're typically handled in bulk, which means even small amounts of spillage during loading, storage, or transport can add up fast.
Because of their size and buoyancy, pellets move through stormwater systems with very little resistance. Once they're in a drain, conventional infrastructure does almost nothing to stop them. From there, it's a short and largely uninterrupted path to local waterways, where they contribute directly to microplastic pollution.
It's a problem that's easy to underestimate until you start measuring it.
In partnership with the University of Toronto Trash Team, EnviroPod deployed 13 LittaTrap™ units across the properties of five plastic companies in Toronto to find out exactly how much pellet loss was happening in real industrial conditions.
The results were striking. Over the course of a year, those 13 units captured nearly 5.5 million plastic pellets that would otherwise have entered the local watershed.
That's not a hypothetical risk. That's nearly 5.5 million individual pieces of plastic that were on their way into stormwater infrastructure and ultimately the environment before LittaTrap™ intercepted them.
LittaTrap™ on its own is already an effective at-source filtration system, capturing gross pollutants and sediment directly at the catch basin. But for sites specifically dealing with resin pellets and similarly sized particulates, the 1000 micron EnviroPod™ Nurdle Liner takes that capability further.
The liner is designed to target pollutants smaller than 5mm and larger than 1mm, precisely the range pellets fall into. It fits inside the existing LittaTrap™ system, meaning facilities don't need to overhaul their stormwater infrastructure to get targeted protection. It's a simple addition that closes a very specific gap.
For manufacturing sites, that specificity matters. You're not just filtering generally, you're filtering for the pollutant that's most likely to be leaving your site unnoticed.
EnviroPod™ is proud to be an official supporter of Operation Clean Sweep®, the global initiative helping the plastics industry achieve zero pellet loss. It's a goal that depends on two things working together: good operational practices on site, and effective controls when pellets do escape handling and storage processes.
LittaTrap™ with the nurdle liner is built for that second part. It gives plastics manufacturers and handlers a practical, retrofit-friendly way to back up their pellet management practices with real stormwater capture, not just policy, but a physical barrier between pellet loss and the watershed.
For sites working toward Operation Clean Sweep® commitments, that's the kind of solution that turns an intention into a measurable outcome.
What makes this approach effective isn't complexity, it's precision. LittaTrap™ already handles the modular retrofit capability, capture capacity, and maintenance access that industrial sites need. The nurdle liner simply tunes that system to the specific pollutant most likely to slip through.
If your site handles plastic pellets in any capacity, manufacturing, packaging, transport, or storage, this is worth a closer look. Nearly 5.5 million pellets in one study is a number that's hard to ignore.
Learn more about LittaTrap™ HERE and the EnviroPod™ Nurdle Liner HERE.
