Straws, vapes and a lady's sex toy: the Manly diver who's spent 30 years clearing marine plastic

'Tricky' Nicholls has pulled decades' worth of Sydney's rubbish out of the sea by hand - but he still has hope for our oceansSign up for Guardian Australia's free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundupEvery morning a tractor rolls over Manly's picture-perfect beaches, scraping away the signs of the day before. But below the water's pristine surface, where council clean-up teams struggle to scour, a jumble of plastics tell a different tale.It is a story Richard Nicholls knows well. Over three decades, the 63-year-old "Tricky" Nicholls has led thousands of divers and snorkelers on monthly clean-up dives while tracking trends in Sydney's marine plastics. Continue reading...