"It Is a Grainy White Material, Let's Monitor Carefully": Mysterious White Fragments Invade the Beaches of Tuscany, Ongoing Investigations to Reveal the Origin of the Abnormal Trail

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They look like small fragments of plastic: white, partly transparent and irregular in shape. They appear in the form of tiny lumps or thin scales, scattered among the grains of sand and concentrated in larger quantities along the line in which the wave motion physiologically deposits the debris. This is the trail of abnormal material appeared in recent days in Tuscany, on the beach of Rimigliano, in San Vincenzo, extending to the area of Torracc…

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The first analyses exclude the presence of plastic residues in the material found between Rimigliano, Baratti, the Gulf of Follonica and Elba Island. It is mainly sodium alginate. Still to be clarified the origin of the phenomenon