Russ Lewis points at the wear on a piece of plastic foam he found during a cleanup along Long Beach Peninsula in Pacific County, Wash., Monday, June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

FILE - The Geosund salvaging ship lifts a container from the seabed off the northwestern coast of the Netherlands on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019, after the MSC Zoe freighter was caught in a heavy storm earlier in the month. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

This image provided by W K Webster shows dislodged containers on the cargo ship ONE Apus at Osaka Bay, Japan, on Dec. 7, 2020, after the ship hit heavy swells on a voyage from China to California in November 2020. (W K Webster via AP)

This March 30, 2021, photo provided by Jon Brack and the Friends of Midway Atoll shows a refrigerator which washed up on the shore of Midway Atoll, a national wildlife refuge for millions of seabirds near the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean. (Jon Brack, Friends of Midway Atoll via AP)

Russ Lewis points towards a nearby protected nesting zone for snowy plovers as he collects garbage along Long Beach Peninsula in Pacific County, Wash., Monday, June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

This combination of Monday, June 17, 2024, photos, shows top row from left, a plastic turkey, a container of tennis balls, a child's helmet; and bottom row from left, a toy football, a plastic squirt gun and a Crocs shoe, found by Russ Lewis after they washed up on Long Beach Peninsula in Pacific County, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

FILE - A Sri Lankan navy soldier wearing a protective suit walks on mounds of debris that washed ashore from the burning Singaporean ship X-Press Pearl which is anchored off Colombo port at Kapungoda, on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, May 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

FILE - A man looks at the Panamanian-registered container ship MSC Chitra that days earlier collided with the MV-Khalijia-II, a St. Kitts registered ship, in the Arabian Sea near Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, File)

FILE - People walk past stranded containers in the area between Tranum and Slette beach in Denmark, Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023, a day after a Maersk ship dropped 46 containers off the coast between Bulbjerg and Svinkloev in the northwestern part of Jutland, during storm Pia. (Claus Bjoern Larsen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)

Russ Lewis drives along Long Beach Peninsula as he searches for garbage to clean up in Pacific County, Wash., Monday, June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Russ Lewis collects garbage along Long Beach Peninsula in Pacific County, Wash., Monday, June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

FILE - A person walks past detritus in the area between Tranum and Slette beach in Denmark, Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023, a day after a Maersk ship dropped 46 containers off the coast between Bulbjerg and Svinkloev in the northwestern part of Jutland, during storm Pia. (Claus Bjoern Larsen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)

FILE - In this photo provided by Sri Lanka Air Force, smoke rises from the container vessel X-Press Pearl engulfed in flames off Colombo port, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. (Sri Lanka Air Force via AP, File)

Volunteer beach cleaner Russ Lewis holds detritus of shipping container spills washed up on Washington's Long Beach Peninsula in Pacific County, Wash., Monday, June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

This image from video provided by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute shows fish and other sea life around a shipping container lost from the cargo vessel Med Taipei during a storm in February 2004, found around 1,280 meters (4,200 feet) below the surface of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in California on Dec. 12, 2013. (MBARI via AP)

FILE - Containers are piled up at a cargo terminal of Deutsche Bahn in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, April 26, 2023. In the background is the European Central Bank building. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

FILE - A volunteer holds plastic pellets spilled from a transport ship collected from a beach in Nigran, Pontevedra, Spain, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar, File)

FILE - Gantry cranes load cargo onto container ships at a port of Kwai Tsing Container Terminals in Hong Kong, Friday, May 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)