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.

  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    5 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.

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      5 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

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        5 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.