Volunteers clean beaches in Sussex after shipping container spills (www.bbc.com)

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Volunteers are cleaning up beaches across the Sussex coast as shipping containers and their spilled contents have been washing up on beaches.

Oliver Blackaby, 51, said when he went to clear up Brighton beach on Wednesday morning he found "lots of face masks, disposable gloves, packaging from the crates and various other bits of plastic".

Three shipping containers washed up in Seaford on Tuesday, and more than 16 containers have fallen from ships near the Isle of Wight in the last month.

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