It’s never good when a bunch of junk spills into the ocean and washes onto shore. It ultimately means that we humans have failed at some point along the way, contributing to the degradation of our home planet with some toxic junk we carelessly tossed about. But, occasionally, the blow of that existential dread is softened when the thing that washes ashore is cute and whimsical. According to an article from Houston Public Media , Texas beaches are getting periodic waves of what locals have started calling “sea pigs,” plastic piggy banks that have been washing ashore by the dozens along the Gulf Coast. Videos by VICE Photo: Jace Tunnell / Harte Research Institute Some of these things look fresh from the factory. Bright pink, blue, and yellow piggy banks, some still sealed with the little plastic tab over the coin slot, are showing up tangled in thick mats of sargassum seaweed .…