Debris washes ashore. Masks and food containers are among the first of the contents to arrive after ~40 containers were lost from a ship (the APL England) 70km off the #Sydney coast. #marinedebris #plasticpollution #maritimespills

The saddest part is that most of the washed-up debris was plastic of some form or another. We can clean up the beaches, but what remains in the ocean will fragment and cause #plastic & #microplastic pollution for many decades.

And a visual reminder that the summer’s dreadful #bushfires released huge amounts of pyrogenic carbon into our waterways. The impact of which is also the subject of our current research. The recent storm has brought it back to the beach, with pumice & plastics, a heady mix...