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In most places, a snack-sized bag of Cheetos left on the ground would be a minor inconvenience, a mildly annoying piece of litter that needed to be picked up. Inside Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico, however, a bag of Cheetos dropped on the ground was a serious environmental hazard for the delicate underground system.on Sept. 6 along with an explanation of why it was such a big deal. “To the owner of the snack bag, the impact is likely incidental,” park staff wrote.
The rangers got to work on clean-up duty after the bag was found. They spent 20 minutes “carefully removing the foreign detritus and molds from the cave surfaces.” Staff described the spilled snack bag as potentially “world changing” to the life of the cave.Park staff aren’t sure where the Cheetos bag came from, but it was likely a visitor who dropped it, park guide Joseph Ward says over email.
Carlsbad Caverns permits a maximum of around 2,000 people per day into the cave. It easily hits that mark in the summer, so there’s lots of potential for littering. “On any given day we will find a few small pieces of trash, a map, maybe a wrapper of some kind,” says Ward. “Sometimes we find items like this along the trails which are paved and easier to clean the food scraps off of.” Ward mentions food isn’t the only problem. Park staff have to clean up human waste on a weekly basis.
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