Yakutat , Alaska ( CNN ) -- Residents of towns in the Alaska Panhandle have begun picking up plastic bottles , chunks of foam insulation and floating buoys from Japan 's 2011 tsunami . ` ` If you walk up and down this beach , you can see big chunks , '' Alaska Joe says . He says it does n't have the power to protect remote areas . Tsunami debris could be washing ashore for a while , he says .
` ` If you walk up and down this beach , you can see big chunks , '' Alaska Joe says . He says it does n't have the power to protect remote areas . Tsunami debris could be washing ashore for a while , he says .