What a load of rubbish!
Audio here . Good morning and welcome to Thought for the Day. Beachcomber Ryan Stalker from Weymouth , (click for pictures) had a bit of a surprise the other day when walking along the seafront at Osmington Mills on the Dorset Coast. He saw some rubbish washed up on the beach. Nothing out of the ordinary there. But on further inspection the big plastic item turned out to be an intact wheelie bin. Yes like our beloved HDC wheelie bins that line our street on a Monday and Tuesday (depending on where you live), a whole wheelie bin had washed up on the Dorset shore. But this particular wheelie bin turned out to have come all the way across the Atlantic from Alabama in the United States. Once this hit social media, Americans went wild, and managed to track the item by its bar code to one of three particular missing wheelie bins. And this one went missing in Hurricane Sally in September 2020. So the barnacle encrusted wheelie bin had travelled over 4000 miles in nearly 6 years. Talk abo...