detritus

I met him a couple of years ago at my local Home Depot, and have hired him a few times to haul away household detritus.

To keep things clean, there’s a wooden broom he can sweep out leaves and other detritus.

“When the productivity of the surface water changes, that affects the amount of detritus, or dead material, that sinks to the deep sea floor that is the food supply for those organisms,” Drazen said.

Then came another wait to dump their loads — an untold number of incinerated living room sets, teddy bears, running shoes and other detritus, spilling into a final resting place.

But residents need not fear the detritus, which is composed of fine ash that swirled together with sand and washed ashore, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced.