US trash can travels across Atlantic to Mayo

The trash can on the beach in Mulranny, Co Mayo. Picture: City of Myrtle Beach Twitter

Instead of a message in a bottle, it was the decals on a barnacle-covered trash barrel that shows just how far it travelled, from the southeastern US coast to a beach in Mayo, more than 5,633km from home.

The City of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in the US, announced on Monday that a waste barrel had somehow washed up in Co Mayo.