60-year-old ocean travelers; Garbage that finally reached the beach!

According to BBC; Scientists and environmental volunteers in the Orkney Islands of Scotland have faced an unprecedented scene. Piles of plastic bottles and debris that appear to have been dumped in the ocean more than 50 years ago have now washed ashore. Evidence shows that the debris washed up off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada, and after decades of traveling across the Atlantic Ocean, it finally came to rest on the Howar Sands beach.

David Warner, director of cleanup projects for these beaches, considers the amount of pollution unbelievable. He says that while last year the total number of bottles collected in this area was less than 50, this year in just a few weeks, he has come across hundreds of old bottles and thousands of crushed pieces of Polystyrene. According to experts, strong winds and climate changes have pushed this old garbage, which was either in the deep sea or was released from coastal landfills due to soil erosion, to this side of the ocean.

The situation of this area, which is a sensitive sanctuary for nesting birds, seems worrying. Warner estimates that there are more than 300,000 tiny pieces of unolite spread over just a small area of ​​this beach. These particles are so small that it is not possible to collect them by hand. Catherine Gemmell, a member of the Marine Conservation Society, says plastic never breaks down and can linger in marine environments for decades. Some of these bottles have logos of brands that have not existed for years.

Despite these discouraging conditions, local volunteers are gearing up for a massive spring beach cleanup. Warner plans to use these old wastes to create an artwork to draw public attention to the fate of their production waste. He says:

Even if we did not produce this waste, it is still the waste of a human who once lived in a corner of the world; These wastes warn us and we have to ask ourselves, where is the plastic that we throw away today going to end up in the future?

Despite this dismal image, David Warner seeks to turn this crisis into an opportunity. He plans to form an official beach cleanup group and even use the same plastics to create an art sculpture to make a powerful statement about this global problem.