A girl lost her cassette - found it 25 years later at an exhibition

Stella Wedell from Berlin was 12 when she went on a Spanish holiday and had her walkman with a cassette with Pet Shop Boys, Shaggy and Bob Marley on it. She lost the tape, either on the Costa Brava or in Mallorca, only to be reunited with the cassette tape quarter of a century later at an exhibition by the British artist and photographer Mandy Barker, who specialises in creating pieces out of plastic marine debris. According to Guardian, Barker had picked up the tape from the Playa de Barlovento beach in Lanzarote, hundreds of miles away from where it was lost, had it restored – and made playable. Apart from the almost-romantic side of the story, there is the ecological side, as prof Richard Thompson, the head of the international marine litter research unit at Plymouth University, said - "the fact it has survived intact shows the durability of plastic and the threat it can pose to the marine environment”.