In 2018 Fistral Beach Clean offered Newquay Museum a quantity of 'vintage beach rubbish' much of this was dated in the early 1980's. Also artwork by way of a surfboard, showing plastics collected from the beach by Gill Arnott. The question was how would we use this and get across the message that rubbish discarded on beaches can last decades and have a negative impact on the environment in many ways.