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Shards of blackened glass have been washing up at Brick Bay beach and a Sandspit resident is trying to solve the mystery.
Eighteen months ago, while walking his dogs, Mark Logan started noticing a large amount of dark glass scattered along the beach. He started picking up the pieces every time he visited, but after six months he found he wasn’t making any progress.
“New pieces just keep washing in,” he says. “I go most days and I pick up 200 pieces some days.”
He is appealing to the public to try and find the source of the broken glass.
“The strange thing is that there are no beer bottles and almost all of the glass is the same. It’s a thick, dark glass which is quite weathered, but there are also fresh jagged pieces in the sand. It looks like high-end wine bottles and olive oil bottles.
“There’s no other rubbish washing up and there’s no glass on neighbouring beaches at Sandspit and Snells Beach.
“It’s a real mystery, but someone must know something.”
Mark has gathered about 10kg of glass and is hoping a community group can pitch in and help clean up the beach.
“It’s absolutely shameful someone could do this to such a beautiful beach.”
Mark hopes a local artist may want to use the glass as part of an artwork to publicise the issue.
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