Spring break is not a time for marring beaches
- Mar 7, 2017
- 1 min read
Last year, Miami Beach hosted Floatopia, an event where people float and relax on rafts along the coast and mingle on the beach.
This opinion article was originally featured in PantherNOW and focuses on Floatopia's damaging aftermath 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/Assistant Opinion Director
Last year, Miami Beach hosted Floatopia, an event where people float and relax on rafts along the coast and mingle on the beach.
The aim was to provide something fun and different for Miami, and while the event might have promoted good vibes and good people coming together to connect, the event was disastrous for the environment.
There are psychological benefits of various types of natural scenes, and as new research shows, those benefits are taken away by trashing the environment.
The aftermath of the event looked like a scene straight out of “Sharknado.” The coastline was nothing but a trashed beach covered in discarded rafts, bottles and cans left behind by thousands of people.
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Photo Credit: Flickr
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