Thousands of plastic styrofoam beads spilled onto a beach at Lake Tahoe, in what a non-profit has described as a "shocking environmental incident."<br /><br />The beads are believed to have been released by a floating dock that broke free during high wind on 6 January.<br /><br />Clean Up The Lake organised a large-scale cleanup on 8 January, estimating that they removed around 90 per cent of the beads but some remain mixed into the sand and snow on Ski Beach and Incline Beach.<br /><br />The organisation said the beads can have detrimental effects on aquatic life and pose serious threats to the overall health of the environment.
