AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - Yellowstone crews pull record haul of trash from geysers — 280 hats, retainers, and a 2010 McDonald's toy
Yellowstone National Park's geology team has removed a record volume of debris from the park's fragile hydrothermal features in 2026, a cleanup catalog that reads like a lost-and-found bin from another dimension. More than 20,100 pieces of paper and plastic trash, 5,600 rocks and sticks, and over 280 hats, that is what park crews have […] The post Yellowstone crews pull record haul of trash from geysers — 280 hats, retainers, and a 2010 McDonald's toy appeared first on American Almanac .
Yellowstone National Park's geology team has removed a record volume of debris from the park's fragile hydrothermal features in 2026, a cleanup catalog that reads like a lost-and-found bin from another dimension. More than 20,100 pieces of paper and plastic trash, 5,600 rocks and sticks, and over 280 hats, that is what park crews have fished out of geysers, hot springs, and thermal runoff channels so far this year, UPI reported . The numbers come from a news release issued by the Yellowstone National Park Geology Program and hosted by the U.S. Geological Survey's Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. The sheer variety of junk tells a story about personal responsibility, or the lack of it, among the millions of visitors who pass through one of…Open