scrAPES # 15 Coffee spill: Thousands of coffee cans wash up in Indialantic
Published: 12/8/15
By: J.D Gallop
This article talks about how a beach outside of Double Tree hotel was filled with thousands of coffee grains, Cafe Bustelo just lying in the shore of the beach. U.S coast guards and a marine science technicians where taking a stroll along the beach looking for any other hazardous or bacteria things along the beach. They believe that a cargo ship filled with thousands of Cafe Bustelo accidentally fell out the ship and into the ocean making its way to the beach. Luckily all they found was just the coffee grains and nothing else.
The reason why I chose this article is because there is now a beach that could of been contaminated with other chemicals that could of poisoned us or sea animals. Cargo ship drivers need to be more careful while shipping imported goods to one place to another. What caught my attention was that their was people carrying garbage bags helping picking up and cleaning the beach.
This article is important to environmental science because the beach is being contaminated with coffee grains which has a major affect on the beach. What many other people should start doing now is continue on helping picking up the remaining cans and cleaning the coffee grains out of the beach. If everyone helps then the beach would be clean in a day or two.
There is a beach cleanup in the spring! You should help out with cleaning a local beach. :D 5/5
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