As the city of Tampa heads into Gasparilla season with Saturday’s Children’s Gasparilla Parade and next weekend’s big Parade of Pirates on Jan. 27, environmentalists are getting ready for the cleanup aftermath: piles of beads tossed from parade floats that land on the streets and at the bottom of Tampa Bay. The plastic beads that land in the waters of the bay, tossed by boaters and paradegoers .
The Florida Aquarium says for every 5-gallon bucket of Gasparilla beads dropped off at its location, there will be a 50% discount for one general admission ticket.
The Florida Aquarium is teaming up with Ocean Conservancy to host panel discussions about what red tide is, how it spreads and what needs to be done to prevent it from destroying the gulf and Tampa Bay.
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Hillsborough County created the Reduce Your Use Campaign as a way to inform businesses and families about the dangers single use plastics pose to our environment.