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'It's overwhelming': #Plastic from 1960s #Canada washes up on #Orkney beach

Evie McGowan, February 18, 2026

"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 #HowarSands 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 '#RetroRubbish'.

"Warner, 35, said some of the plastic bottles he has discovered on Sanday appear to have originated in #Newfoundland and #Labrador in Canada.

"He worries that even more detritus will wash up on the beach in the future.
'We haven't hit rubbish from the nineties and noughties, so that's going to be extortionate amounts,' he said."

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'It's overwhelming': Plastic from 1960s Canada washes up on Orkney's Sanday

One litter picker says he has seen a huge increase in the amount of plastic washing up on Sanday this year.