A truck full of commercial ink crashed on an I-95 ramp in the Boston area yesterday, spilling the very expensive ink all over the highway. No one was injured in the wreck.
The ink reached two storm drains, but it is not considered a hazardous material. An environmental cleanup company has been summoned to the scene and a "careful cleanup" will be conducted under the supervision of state environmental officials, State Police spokesman David Procopio said in a statement.
Several hundred gallons of ink splattered onto the highway, said Joe Ferson, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.
Approximately 16,000 pounds of ink cartridges from the Flint Group, an Indianapolis-based company selling printing and packaging products, was bound for a newspaper company in Portland, Maine. Red, blue, and yellow ink cartridges were inside the truck, but Ferson said there is no evidence the yellow ink was released.
Although the spilled ink is not considered hazardous, the ramp was closed for hours for cleanup. http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2011/03/truck_crash_spi.html -via reddit
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I see green ink...yellow+blue=green
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I agree with Miss Cellania. Plenty of yellow spilled, otherwise how would green have gotten there without yellow mixing with the blue!
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They call me mellow yellow ... sorry Joe, I see the rainbow and that includes yellow.
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Methinks there's a possibility that Joe Ferson might be colorblind.
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