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Mystery solved: Team discovers why Garfield phones have been washing up on a French beach

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The Iroise coast in Brittany, France, has been blighted by fragments from 80s novelty Garfield phones, leaving its residents with a mystery to solve. Now, the coastal community has an answer. Ar Vilantsou, an anti-litter group, discovered a container of the landline phones lodged between rocks in a nearby beach cave.
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· 13 hours ago

A mystery that's spanned 35 years - finally, we know why Brittany's Iroise coast is littered with Garfield telephones 🤔

Garfield phones mystery solved after 35 years
For years, novelty phones appear on Brittany's beaches - but the source is finally found.
bbc.com
188 replies 3,124 retweets 6,539 likes
· 7 hours ago

Decades-old mystery of Garfield phones washing up on French beaches is SOLVED: 1980s shipping container surrounded by orange plastic handsets is found in a cave after a farmer remembered it washing up in a storm  via

30-year mystery of Garfield phones washing up on French coast SOLVED
The orange phones began washing up on the Iroise coast, in Brittany, in the 1980s and while activists had always suspected a lost shipping container, the exact source remained a mystery until this week.
dailymail.co.uk
20 replies 480 retweets 1,182 likes
· Mar 26

Grâce à , une association a retrouvé l'origine des téléphones Garfield qui polluent les plages de Plouarzel, dans le Finistère, depuis plus de trente ans. Reportage de

Grâce à #AlertePollution, une association retrouve l'origine des téléphones Garfield qui polluent les plages du Finistère depuis plus de trente ans
Après notre enquête, un agriculteur de la région a permis de localiser les vestiges d'un conteneur échoué dans les années 1980, d'où s'échappaient les téléphones en plastique. Nous avons suivi l'expédition, sur place, d'une association de nettoyage du littoral.
francetvinfo.fr
7 replies 102 retweets 305 likes
· 8 hours ago

“Climbing down the slippery rocks to the cave, the team spotted remnants of a destroyed shipping container — and soon, between the rocks, Garfield phones”

Garfield phones mystery solved after 35 years
For years, novelty phones appear on Brittany's beaches - but the source is finally found.
bbc.com
3 replies 142 retweets 358 likes
· 6 hours ago

For 35 years the Iroise coast in Brittany has received a supply of Garfield landline phones."Collectors still buy and sell the vintage phones online" – Maybe we should start to sell the trash that we fish from of our oceans.

Garfield phones mystery solved after 35 years
For years, novelty phones appear on Brittany's beaches - but the source is finally found.
bbc.com
7 replies 57 retweets 194 likes
· 10 hours ago

Anti-litter volunteers find source of plastic Garfield phones pollution in Brittany

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evnsocialnewswire.ch
3 replies 25 retweets 108 likes
· 7 hours ago

'The media attention on the new campaign, however, drew the eye of a local farmer who remembered the first téléphone Garfield appearing after a storm in the early 1980s, when he was a young man.' Priceless.

Garfield phones mystery solved after 35 years
For years, novelty phones appear on Brittany's beaches - but the source is finally found.
bbc.com
2 replies 31 retweets 108 likes
· Feb 20

Garfield a French plastic pollution icon as 200 phones wash up on beaches in 2018

Garfield a French plastic pollution icon as 200 phones wash up on beaches in 2018
An unusual item has repeatedly washed up on some French beaches for the last 30 years.
nzherald.co.nz
1 reply 25 retweets 89 likes
· 10 hours ago

Fascinating ocean plastics story. Fragments of these 1980 novelty orange Garfield phones washed up for years at this beach and they finally found a lost shipping container. Any other bizarre beach litter stories like this out there?

Garfield phones mystery solved after 35 years
For years, novelty phones appear on Brittany's beaches - but the source is finally found.
bbc.com
9 replies 31 retweets 79 likes
· 10 hours ago

There's plastic sea pollution, and then there's THE GLORIOUS SEA OF NOVELTY GARFIELD PHONES -

Garfield phones mystery solved after 35 years
For years, novelty phones appear on Brittany's beaches - but the source is finally found.
bbc.co.uk
3 replies 20 retweets 121 likes
· 9 hours ago

Whoa. Garfield phones have been washing ashore on this French beach for decades. Would like to write a romance with this as the backdrop.

Garfield phones mystery solved after 35 years
For years, novelty phones appear on Brittany's beaches - but the source is finally found.
bbc.com
7 replies 12 retweets 70 likes
· 6 hours ago

Truly nothing could've prepared me for this

Garfield phones mystery solved after 35 years
For years, novelty phones appear on Brittany's beaches - but the source is finally found.
bbc.com
3 replies 32 retweets 120 likes
· 10 hours ago

I bet the wreck happened on a Monday.

Garfield phones mystery solved after 35 years
For years, novelty phones appear on Brittany's beaches - but the source is finally found.
bbc.com
5 replies 29 retweets 171 likes
· 8 hours ago

the garfield phones mystery (that i didn't know existed) has been solved

Garfield phones mystery solved after 35 years
For years, novelty phones appear on Brittany's beaches - but the source is finally found.
bbc.com
1 reply 13 retweets 72 likes

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