Polystyrene 'white spill' from Brisbane floods causing 'environmental catastrophe' on Queensland beaches

 A new environmental disaster is emerging from the Queensland floods, with locals dubbing the thousands of tiny polystyrene beads covering the coastlines as the "white spill".

Pontoons from the Brisbane River have floated off north of their moorings and are breaking up along 300 kilometres of beaches, from Moreton Island north-east of Brisbane to K'Gari Fraser Island.

Volunteers armed with vacuum cleaners have rushed to clean up amid fears turtles hatching in coming weeks could ingest the tiny beads.

Environmental campaign group, Ten Little Pieces founder Alison Foley, said the debris was quite confronting. 

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