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Subject: Santa Monica pottery studio responds after video surfaces of
 employees dumping glaze in storm drain
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Subject repaired.

A ceramics studio chain store in Santa Monica is facing backlash from 
the community after video surfaced of their employees disposing dirty 
water into a storm drain.

Color Me Mine Santa Monica, a franchise of the paint-your-own-pottery 
chain Color Me Mine, is located on Main Street in Santa Monica.

The video, which was posted, then deleted from Reddit, depicted an 
employee dumping what appeared to be green paint-tinted water or glaze 
down a storm drain with a “No Dumping” stamp above it while their 
coworker stood by.

In a video posted to Instagram by the user @psyskoh, one of the 
employees can be heard saying “Who cares? It’ll rain.”

Although the exact date that the video was taken was not immediately 
known, the Reddit post was published last Tuesday and the Instagram post 
on Thursday.

In a statement posted to Facebook, Color Me Mine Santa Monica apologized 
to the Santa Monica community as well as “customers new and old.”

“We at Color Me Mine want to give our deepest apologies and take 
accountability for our employees’ actions,” the statement read in part. 
“These actions were not enforced, condoned nor recommended by management 
nor ownership.”

The ceramics studio said that they are “ashamed that such a huge 
mistake…caused by one of [their] own” occurred just feet from their 
store and expressed that what the employee did was not only not standard 
procedure, but this was also the first time an incident like this 
happened in the 15 years they have been at that location.

“Please recognize that these actions are wrong and are being handled, 
and most definitely are not representative of the entirety of our 
store,” the statement continued. “We are working with the city to pay 
for fines and the cleanup process as well.”

Color Me Mine Santa Monica did note that the glaze in the video is 
non-toxic, water based and soluble.

According to the store’s statement, the employees in the video have been 
reprimanded and the entire staff has undergone training on how to 
properly dispose of glaze in the future.

Reports from the Santa Monica Daily Press indicate that Color Me Mine 
employees have received death threats and now fear for their personal 
safety due to the “lapse in judgement.”

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/santa-monica-pottery-studio-responds-after-video-surfaces-of-employees-dumping-glaze-in-storm-drain/