Since the end of last month, runners and flip flops have been regularly washing up along the west coast of Ireland.
Image: Burren Shores Beachcombing and More. Image: Burren Shores Beachcombing and More. SINCE THE END of last month, runners and flip-flops have been regularly washing up along the west coast of Ireland.In 2018, multiple containers fell off a cargo ship that was travelling from Shanghai to North Carolina.
Donegal, Connemara, Valentia and Fanore are some of the locations in Ireland to have come across the flip-flops and runners while Jersey, Spain, Brest, Cornwall, Brittany and the Azores have also recorded sightings. According to MacNamara, the items belong to two companies, both of whom “have confirmed that they had a shipment on that boat that lost the containers”.
An artist has expressed an interest in using the runners for a future project but apart from that, the cleanup will be left to volunteers.
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