Marvellously renewed, he would walk again in the Piazza di Spanga at twilight, moving in that drifting flotsam of dark women and ragged beggars, of austere, barefooted friars.
Untold tonnes end up as irretrievable ocean flotsam, which sunlight and salt fragment into microscopic pieces that attract toxins and may be gulped by creatures that become seafood.
And it is an object, so ubiquitous, that if you saw one laying around on a beach, you couldn't be sure whether someone brought it there, or if it is a flotsam from a different part of the planet.