shipwreck

Created: 20160809

Source: LidoDiClasse⋅EmiliaRomagna⋅Italia

Collected: 20160801

'Shipwreck' was collected in the summer of 2016 from Lido Di Classe on the north eastern coast of Italy, a favourite beach for  finding a wide range of plastic objects. The geography of the beach is particularly interesting as the beach tapers into sand dunes and pine forest typical of this area. The dunes are very good at trapping debris from winter storm surges and preserving the contents in piles among the sand and vegetation. There is also a large hollow on the beach filled with driftwood, that fills with seawater in wintertime to reveal a secret subterranean plastic collection. This is where the 'Shipwreck'' piece came from, washed up wreckage reformed into another wreck.