An artist’s images of tiny toys and figurines dumped in the ocean highlight the wasteful ways we have to change
This plastic Robin Hood figurine, given away free in packets of Kellogg’s cornflakes 50 or 60 years ago, was found during a beach clean at Perranporth in North Cornwall. Photograph: Tracey Williams @legolostatsea
This plastic Robin Hood figurine, given away free in packets of Kellogg’s cornflakes 50 or 60 years ago, was found during a beach clean at Perranporth in North Cornwall. Photograph: Tracey Williams @legolostatsea
Sun 4 Jul 2021 02.00 EDT
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Social media was made for projects like Tracey Williams’s #LegoLostatSea, which anecdotally charts the plastic that has been dumped in the ocean in the past 70 years. Williams began her mission after becoming obsessed with the container of 4.8m Lego pieces that spilled from a cargo ship 20 miles off Land’s End in 1997, and which continue to be washed up on Cornwall’s beaches every day. The fact that many