SAUGATUCK, MI — The white plastic pellets that spilled into the Kalamazoo River are small enough to fit several on a fingernail.
They’re also part of a much larger problem.
The “nurdles” that scattered along I-196 and into the river after a Jan. 27 semi-truck crash are the same industrial pellets that researchers have been finding for years on Great Lakes beaches from Benton Harbor to the northern shore of Lake Superior…