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