Despite being asked to clean up after themselves, about 3,000 students celebrating Memorial Day weekend left piles of debris

Despite being asked to clean up after themselves, about 3,000 students celebrating Memorial Day weekend left piles of debris

College students celebrating Memorial Day weekend by California’s Shasta Lake left behind hoard of trash, according to US Forest Service officials.

Last weekend, approximately 3,000 students from the University of California, Davis and the University of Oregon partied at Shasta Lake, a 30,000-acre reservoir in the golden state, and left piles of debris cluttered around the lake.

According to forest service officials, despite being asked to clean up after themselves, the students left behind trash including cups, cans, plastic wrappers and pool floats.

Speaking to CBS, Shasta-Trinity National Forest recreation staff officer Deborah Carlisi said that staff members handed out trash bags to students for them to pack up their items.

“Some students used them, some students didn’t,” Carlisi said. A three-person cleanup crew ultimately spent six hours picking up the trash around the lake. Nevertheless, not all the trash was removed.

  • minibyte@sh.itjust.works
    45·
    6 months ago

    A place seaside in Florida gave out 5 gallon buckets. A bucket full of litter earned you a beer or fish taco or something, I don’t remember.

    The result of that was the cleanest stretch of sand you could visibly see.

    • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
      19·
      6 months ago

      That is great for cleaning up an existing mess, but isn’t something to promote for people who are supposed to be basic members of society who properly dispose of their own waste.

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      Yeah I’m gonna guess that people would just start raiding trash cans for trash so they can get free beer and tacos.

      • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
        2·
        6 months ago

        That would be a lot of work for a beer. Probably just easier picking up trash around the beach where the buckets were handed out

        • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 months ago

          That sounds like a lot more work than just dumping a bucket into a trash can and pulling it out. Like 30 seconds and not strenuous at all, compared with how long it would take to fill a bucket by picking up individual pieces of trash.