French Garfield beach phone mystery highlights plastic pollution

For more than 30 years bright orange "Garfield" phones have been washing up on the French coast to the bemusement of local beach cleaners, who have finally cracked the mystery behind them. Locals had long suspected a lost shipping container was to blame for the novelty landline phones, modeled on the prickly feline cartoon character, which have plagued the northern Finistere beaches for decades. "Our association has existed for 18 years and in that time we have found pieces of Garfield telephones almost each time we clean," said Claire Simonin, head of the beach cleaning group Ar Viltansou in Brittany. But it wasn't until a local resident revealed that he had discovered the ...

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