2026-08-06 15:39 UTC
Amid the rugged, wave-churned shoreline of France’s Breton coast, a surprising tidbit of pop culture has kept beachcombers returning for more than 40 years. A new short film sheds light on the Garfield-shaped phones that have been washing ashore since the 1980s.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/08/silly-little-plastic-cat-short-film/
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@100vint@fediscience.org 2026-08-06 17:13
@colossal@mastodon.art I remember those phones. It was strange and sad to see these pieces of plastic wash up on the beaches and rocks where we played.
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@joncounts@mastodon.nz 2026-08-07 06:54
@colossal@mastodon.art “To put the scale of pollution into perspective, nearly 1,500 shipping containers were lost in 2025 alone. Less than 10 percent of those were recovered; the rest are still missing.” Yikes! :facepalm: