Floatopia-style parties harmful to environment
- Apr 13, 2017
- 1 min read
Floatopia-style parties is an event where attendees bring inflatable rafts, get disgustingly drunk by the beach and treat the ocean like an open garbage can.
This opinion article was featured in PantherNOW and discusses the harmful impact Floatopia-style parties have on the environment.
Check out the article’s excerpt below and click the link if you want to read the full story!
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Maytinee Kramer/Opinion Director
Floatopia-style parties is an event where attendees bring inflatable rafts, get disgustingly drunk by the beach and treat the ocean like an open garbage can.
If such parties are known for attendees shamelessly tossing beer cans, food wrappers, loose garbage, and all sorts of marine-life-killing flotsam into the current, then why are they still going on?
The Miami New Times reported that Haulover Beach will play host to a Floatopia-style event, called Floatnik, on April 23. The organization putting on the event, South Florida’s Grown and Sexy, has already begun recruiting volunteers to help clean up the beach afterward.
While the organizers want attendees to have a good time, they do demand that everyone avoid taking glass or polystyrene onto the beach.
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