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College students leave behind hoard of trash at California’s Shasta Lake
(www.theguardian.com)
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Merely asking a large group of people to clean up after themselves is incredibly naive. The Forest Service, which runs hundreds of parks across the country, really ought to know better.
Even if a large number of people go out of their way to be responsible, it only takes a minority of assholes to make a huge mess. Without any kind of enforcement or guaranteed accountability (or better yet, a reward system like minibyte described), people are going to act like they normally do - whether they’re college students or not.
It wasn't in this article, but another article on the incident mentioned that earlier in the year, there was a large group of students from Oregon State University who had a similar party weekend. The difference was that 40 of them stayed an extra day to clean up and haul out trash.
In that situation, it took just a small minority of people to clean up the entire mess of the large group. I have no idea if this is something that had been planned from the start but I can see how just a few principaled individuals deciding to clean up could inspire folks who maybe felt bad but didn't want to make a fuss to stay and help out.
That’s awesome!