Picture shows lid of a 'vintage' Polly Pocket Jewelled Palace, photographed on a wooden table top.
Picture shows base of a Polly Pocket Jewelled Palace lying among seaweed.
Many moons age, we found the lid of a 'vintage' Polly Pocket Jewelled Palace (1992) washed up on a beach in Cornwall. Years later, we found its base.
#plasticarchaeology
Old plastic toy soldier, colonised by keel worm, playing the bagpipes at the bottom of a tidal pool.
Stil piping, despite his predicament.
#Beachfind #plasticarchaeology
Brightly coloured Gateway plastic bag on black background
Not sure how old this plastic bag is but Gateway supermarkets have been around since the 1960s. In 1990 they began to be rebranded as Somerfield. Exposed by shifting sands and found during one of our recent beach cleans. #plasticarchaeology #Anthropocene
Modern Plastics Serve as a Valuable Archaeological Record, Study Finds
Researchers say synthetic polymers, mass‑produced since the mid‑20th century, now act as a detailed archaeological archive of recent human activity today. getnews.me/modern-plastics-serve-as... #plasticarchaeology #anthropocene
White and pale coloured beach finds on yellow background
The things we find.
#beachcombing #plasticarchaeology #Anthropocene
Old worn red Fairy Liquid cap on fabric background.
These old Fairy Liquid caps featuring the embossed or raised Fairy baby often turn up on beaches. We don't know when the baby was first put on caps or what year it was discontinued - not sure if anyone does. Little scraps of detergent history #plasticarchaeology #Anthropocene
Plasticized foil bag
PepsiCo's subsidiary
Beach cleanup remains
#packaging #plasticarchaeology #sciencehaiku #Lay’s #PepsiCo Provenience: 25.77586° N, 80.13053° W [Miami Beach, FL – Lummus Park]
Tiny plastic doll with outsized head lying among sand, shells, driftwood and pot rubber.
Unusual doll washed up from the seabed last night. Does anyone recognise it? We wonder if it might be quite old, or just very seaworn. It's 6cm high.
#plasticarchaeology #Anthropocene
23 billion
thrown away annually.
Something is rotten.
#toothbrush #plasticarchaeology #sciencehaiku #Oral-B
Photo credit: Alanna Warner-Smith
Provenience: 38.91895° N, 77.03195° W [Washington, DC - Adams Morgan]
Floss pick discarded
Photosynthesis hindered
Microplastic soil
#dentalflosspick #plasticarchaeology #sciencehaiku #plackers #perrigo #ranir
Photo credit: Isabelle Sandnas
Provenience: 25°43'15"N 80°16'36"W [University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida]
White beachcombing finds on a square red background
Fragments of people's lives, washed up on the beach.
#plasticarchaeology #Anthropocene
Yellow Smartie lid with capital T letter
Blue Smartie lid with capital H letter
Ancient Smartefacts:
These Smartie lids, found washed up from the seabed today, are 54 - 65 years old. Plastic Smartie lids were first introduced in or around 1960. Early lids had capital letters & numbers, but in 1971, these were replaced with lower case letters. #plasticarchaeology #Anthropocene
The Chthulucene
Man, pavement, river, sea, fish
An entanglement
#dentalflosspick #plasticarchaeology #sciencehaiku #zootealy
Photo credit: Alanna Warner-Smith
Provenience: 38.92330° N, 77.04935° W [Washington, DC - Washington Memorial Bridge]
5th grade beach clean up
Plastic paraphernalia
Today’s PSA
#vape #syringe #condomwrapper #plasticarchaeology #sciencehaiku #raz #trojan
Provenience: 25.77363° N, 80.13087° W [Miami Beach, FL - South Beach]
Pink giraffe flosser
Kid tested, parent approved
Nylon and PP
#dentalflosspick #plasticarchaeology #sciencehaiku #zootealy
Photo credit: Alanna Warner-Smith
Provenience: 38.92430° N, 77.05198° W [Washington, DC - Woodley Park]
Enjoy your creepy archaeological Krampus visitations tonight! (This one is plastic.)
#Krampus #Archaeology #plasticarchaeology
A tiny red plastic gnome found while litter picking the River Clyde. Some small toothy creature has chewed his ear off!
Bluesky beachfind 3:
The Gnome With No Name
#litter #conservation #marine #plasticarchaeology
