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This month, the good people of County Clare, Ireland awoke to find a giant, rusty buoy from Cape Breton heading straight for them. Formerly moored near the community of Arichat, the three tonne navigation marker was discovered ploughing towards the Emerald Isle with 60 meters of rusty chain in tow.

An Irish official told CBC that, obviously, the Cape Breton buoy was now a “danger rather than an aide to navigation.”

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And this kind of occurrence isn’t all that unusual. At any moment, the North Atlantic is packed with flotillas of Canadian debris slowly inching east to ruin someone’s beach picnic or sail excursion.

Below, a brief summary of the Canadiana that has been smashing into Europe for years.

Shotgun shells

From Ireland to England to Scotland, beachcombers are constantly turning up plastic shotgun shells and wads (a plastic component discharged when a shotgun is fired). And everyone seems to be blaming this on Newfoundland and Labrador. The shells, many of which are not sold in Europe, are believed to originate from wintertime turr hunting off the Newfoundland and Labrador coast. The plastic shotgun shells then find their way overboard and begin their frigid journey east.