Indestructible! Card’s 40 years in sea
SLIGHTLY bent and faded, this Barclaycard looks as if it’s spent a few days at the bottom of a binbag.
But it has actually spent around 40 years in the sea, proving how indestructible plastics are and why they are a threat to the environment.
With an expiry date of October 1979, it was found on Aldwick beach in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, on Thursday.
It belonged to Rene Vignon, who died at 89 in 2003, and is thought to have been lost on a beach and swept out to sea. It then bobbed around for years before being washed ashore.