Photos: Weird Yellow Fluff Balls Wash Up on French Beaches

Tangled in knots

Here, the yellow blobs are tangled up with kelp and other material

Huge field of debris

A huge pile of yellow blobs

Cleanup process

People have even resorted to using bulldozers to clean up the material.

Common problem

Similar beach debris has washed ashore in recent years in England and Germany. Those balls were industrial paraffin.

Identifying the source

So far, no one has identified the ship or source of the pollution.

Field of debris

Here, another field of yellow blobs on a French beach.

Big mess

The pollution washed along the coast near the English channel, which sees heavy traffic from industrial ships.

Blobs in the sun

Here, images of the blobs in the sun.

Yellow goo

The yellow goo was still washing ashore over several days.

Ear wax

Some of the blobs resemble ear wax