There could be a hidden cost to rivers from Labor Day revelry, according to the results of a study that found painkillers, cocaine and other pollutants in a Colorado river following a previous year’s bank holiday fallout.
Because while Labor Day encouraged people to take their rafts and inflatable tubes out onto the water for some fun, they’re also doing what people invariably always do when they’re in the open water – having a sneaky, secret pee. And what they’re passing can give scientists a snapshot of what they’ve been putting into their bodies before expelling it.
