Great Barrier Island board chairman Paul Downie is offering to trade wheel barrow bodies washed ashore from the Rena for wheels with Matakana Island residents.

The island resident made the joke when talking to SunLive about the debris including wheel barrow bodies that has been washing ashore on the island's coastline.

Debris from Rena has been washing ashore on Great Barrier Island. Photo: File

'No doubt they will be put to good use,” he joked today.

'Unfortunately the wheels haven't arrived yet.'

Wheelbarrow wheels washed ashore on Matakana Island in January after the Rena broke apart during a storm.

Reports of debris including plastic beads and noodles, washing up on Great Barrier Island were first reported on Friday, April 28.

'We've had some of the little plastic beads used in the plastic industries, also one bag, and a few noodles,' says Paul.

'But it's not massive, there's not a hell of a lot to clean up. You have to look for it.”

Paul says south easterly winds experienced in the last couple of weeks may have pushed the debris north.

He says the wind has now shifted further around to the south reducing the chance of more debris in the region.

Breamar Howells spokesman Grant Dyson says debris on Great Barrier Island is no surprise given the quantities that were blown across to the Coromandel.

'It's just a skip and a jump from the Coromandel to the Barrier, and that was the drift of all that material after the major swell,” says Grant.

Braemar Howells is sending staff to the island in the next few days to survey the beaches and gather debris. A barge is also in the upper Coromandel area at Port Charles to assist in clean-up operations.

Braemar still has teams of workers clearing debris in the Coromandel after the storm pounded the Rena wreck last month.

Operations manager Neil Lloyd says Braemar continues to prioritise clean-up efforts on areas where there is risk debris can be refloated on incoming high tides.

Also high on the priority list is continued clean-up work at Matakana Island in the Bay of Plenty. Bundled lots of debris were removed from the island early this week, and beach surveys there are continuing.

Braemar staff are also using especially devised portable vacuum equipment on Matakana Island today for use in bead recovery.