A clean-up has begun in New South Wales, Australia, after debris washed up from a Yang Ming containership that lost 83 forty-foot boxes on Thursday.

ABC reported that nappies, sanitary products and surgical masks were among the rubbish floating in the water off Port Stephens.

The 4,250-teu YM Efficiency (built 2009) was hit by heavy swells en route from Kaohsiung to Sydney.