The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed that a large plastic bin which washed ashore on Friday was a piece of debris from Japan and had floated across the Pacific Ocean.
The news was later confirmed by Japanese officials who said the bin had come from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant.
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A NOAA spokesman, Ben Sherman told the Huffington Post the bin was the 12th piece of marine debris to land in the United States.
The Huffington Post reported the bin was a four-foot by four-foot cube that was spotted off Waimanalo, on the southeast coast of Oahu, by Makai Ocean Engineering staff and was retrieved by the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory.
More than 16 months after an earthquake and tsunami devastated parts of Japan, debris continues to wash ashore across the Pacific Ocean in the United States.
The debris first arrived on beaches in Alaska and Oregon but now Hawaii is being affected.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed that a large plastic bin which washed ashore on Friday was a piece of debris from Japan and had floated across the Pacific Ocean.
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