Even though I'm not a fan of identifying invertebrates,
while cataloging the plastic pieces I collected for my project pertaining to
plastic on Florida's beaches, I love coming across anything that has letters on
it and attempting to figure out what it is, who made it, and/or where it came
from. In addition to my bottle cap from Haiti, I've come across several items, such
as part of a yellow MercaSID container and a bottle cap from ISM Group, that
are manufactured in the Dominican Republic, as well as countries located along
the shores of South America.
Ocean plastic doesn't just float on the surface but within
the water column, thus both surface currents and possibly deep ocean currents
such as the Gulf Stream could be moving plastic around our ocean. Currently I do
not have the means to figure out if currents brought the foreign manufactured
items to our shores or if specialty stores near each beach sell the products.
If you'd like to help me play detective, I'm still
trying to figure out where the following bottle cap is from:
Best guess so far, by a friend of mine, has been
"Chet, Pour the Champagne" :).
Interesting! Would it be possible to place a sheet of paper over the bottle cap and 'shade' with a pencil to get a better impression of the letters? Rather hard to read in this pic...
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