Visitors to UK beach saw unusual sight earlier this week. shoreline was covered in French fries ("chips" in British English). Thousands of bags of chips washed up on beach in the county of Sussex. The bags were in shipping containers that fell off cargo ships in English Channel. Bad weather caused three of containers to fall into the sea. Currents and tides carried one of containers and the chips to the shore. Joel Bonnici, local man, was the first to find the chips. He said: "From distance, it looked like the golden sand of Caribbean beach, but on closer inspection, we saw not just the chips, but chip bags." He added: "In some areas, the chips were 75 cm deep."
Volunteers are helping to clean up beach. Many people came to the beach to help clean-up. Mr Bonnici said the chips were environmental hazard. He said: "Removing the plastic bags is priority." He is worried about colony of seals that live near the beach. Bonnici said: "If seals see the bags, they will play with them or try to eat them." local official warned people to be careful if they go to the beach. She said: "Please keep dogs on leads as some of food items washing on to shoreline may be harmful to them." She asked people to "report any new debris". The chip spill is second such event in Sussex recently. Last month, thousands of bananas washed ashore.
