Beach glass with barnacles (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Beach glass with barnacles

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This piece of glass covered in barnacles was collected in the “wrack zone,” the high tide line where kelp accumulates, at Puget Sound’s Illahee Beach in 2019. Volunteers’ beach surveys confirm that litter tends to accumulate on this part of the beach.

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