US EditionChips washing up on Eastbourne beach sparks action from locals
Storms caused at least 20 shipping containers to spill food and packaging, including 1.9 tonnes of debris collected by volunteers along East Sussex beaches.
- On Saturday, January 17, Eastbourne resident Joel Bonnici and his partner Trisha found tens of thousands of uncooked potato chips forming a blanket up to two feet deep at Falling Sands near Beachy Head.
- Containers are thought to have fallen from two separate vessels off the Isle of Wight during Storm Goretti, with at least 20 containers overboard causing chips to wash up on East Sussex shores.
- Volunteers and council crews have removed plastic wrapping and collected 1.9 tonnes of waste, nearly 4 times more than usual, while Neighbourhood First officers and street sweeping staff focus on clearing the beach.
- Bonnici warned the bags threaten wildlife, noting the seal colony of 20 to 30 seals and said `Removing the plastic bags is a priority` as volunteers collect debris, while East Sussex County Council advised local beach visitors and dog owners to keep dogs on leads.
- Cleanup operations are continuing between Beachy Head and the Seven Sisters, while Brand Marine said it is providing recovery on behalf of the Lombok Strait owner after losing 17 refrigerated containers on January 8.
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Storm Goretti wreaked havoc on the Atlantic coast, especially on cargo ships crossing the Channel. ...
She probably doesn't want to eat any more: on a beach in the United Kingdom thousands of fries packages have been washed. "Just a sea of fries, it was a bit crazy, a local woman described the extraordinary sight. Last week several containers had been washed ashore near Eastbourne in the south of the country. There were "food and packaging". Now again thousands of bags of fries and onions were washed to the beach. The packs lay "as far as the eye…
In England beach walkers do not trust their eyes. In front of them lies instead of sand a sea of fries.
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A beach in England has disappeared under a blanket of raw chips and onions after a ship spilled its cargo earlier this month.
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