Plastic bottles and debris which appears to have originated in Canada and dates back to the 1960s and 70s has washed up on an Orkney beach.
Litter pickers say they are “overwhelmed” by the amount of plastic they have found on the shoreline at Howar Sands in Sanday over the last few weeks.
David Warner, who organises beach cleans, said he gathered 42 plastic bottles from the shore last year - yet already this year he has found hundreds.
Experts blame “fairly extraordinary weather”, with strong south-easterly winds, for the increase in “retro rubbish”.
I wonder if any of the older plastic was previously frozen in icebergs?
Sounds like Nova Scotia had coastal land fills that are eroding into the sea. Seems like containing it there before it washes away would d be easier.
How would plastic bottles have ended up inside glaciers formed by falling snow?
Or maybe frozen in ocean ice after collecting in a bay.
That is not how icebergs form.
I hear hoof steps, must be a zebra!
I’m just wondering how nobody in the Maritimes noticed 1960s land fill washing away. I also wondered why the people in the Orkneys would expect 80s and 90s trash after 60s and 70s trash, when the newer trash would be on top and would have washed away first.