HP cartridges wash up around UK and Europe after spill

Here is another container story, not quite as exciting as some, but all the same, the kind of event that produced a series of identical objects transformed through their journeys.
This story originally appeared in the BBC news, written by Mario Cacciottolo, featuring a 2014 container spill somewhere in the Atlantic of pink and blue HP printer cartridges.
To acquire a quantity of these over time would be a great collection to have. It would gain in interest as the years rolled by and the additions became more worn out from their expanding journeys.

Searching through the large collection of finds from a recent kayak trip up The Fleet Lagoon behind Chesil Beach I came across this strikingly similar, if not identical HP ink cartridge. This area is highlighted on the map of sightings, so it could be one of them. It's location on the landward side of the barrier implies that it had either sailed all the way round the notorious Portland Bill and through the narrow mouth of the lagoon on the tide, or had blown over the top of the colossal Chesil itself.

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