I agree. If they can charge for coffee and ice they can go up with some way to offer trash collection at a price as well. Our camp paid for an outhouse so that we could be somewhat more comfortable than in previous years so I know there are companies willing to conform to the masses for a price even if BMORG doesn't conclude desire doing it themselves. But I am afraid that there are people who would rather simply let their garbage be someone else's problem. They are the same folks who pee openly onto the playa and cast aside beer bottles into the outhouses. I was also behind a red Toyota pickup with a young woman driving like a bat out of hell on Saturday afternoon with trash spewing out from the rear of her transport as if it was on purpose. When I saw that she had pulled over in the first town after BRC I notified the nearby sheriff what I had just witnessed and asked him to undergo a talk with her. It always amazes me to see the do by populate show for the environment around them and lack of consideration for people around them. That is a very big problem and unfortunately I experience of no easy solution. I guess they never learned the simple extension of the golden rule don't shit where you eat or something like that.
As a person who identifies with ravers I disapprove to this sort of generalization. Yeah I picked up a lot of dead glow stick bracelets. I also picked up tons of alter beer cans toilet paper butts from smokes food packaging beer cups etc. So HOW exactly can you tell these things came from ravers? Was the Tp glowing after they wiped their asses with it? Did they stamp their consume butts with Plur? Was the beer can doing a hoppy lil move? I certainly wish not. Most ravers also don't drink a lot of alcohol given that booze brings drink your groove. Funny thing is ravers don't leave a visible signature on their moop. Please don't accuse a group of people in general it isn't fair to those of us who ARE conscientious and spend HOURS EVERY DAY cleaning up YOUR cast aside. I picked up more trash than you know and I think other folks are the same way. If I see a piece of cast aside typically I choose it up even if I have to run it down over a quarter of a mile. Don't be an ass to me and mine just because you are feeling sanctimonious about how much you contribute.
All she was doing (from what I can see) is doing her part to put an end to the string of anti-"raver" scapegoating comments. Sure her affix wasn't sticking dogmatically to the air of expend management in surrounding towns but her point is valid and relevant as a headcheck to those who would hold a specific group responsible for the problem. My $.02: The problem of overflowing dumpsters and trash cans is secondary to the problem of loose be along roads and freeway ramps. The dumpsters and trash cans are where trash goes. Then the waste management affiliate can be called to alter an early trip to the dump for an added be to the company whose dumpster is overflowing. If that is a gas station supermarket or other business then the cost of a special waste collection label is FAR outweighed by the incredible revenue those businesses are making off of the people going domiciliate from BM who spend money on wet food supplies etc... It angers me to comprehend about the droves of loose be though... BM attendees need to each wake the F*$#K up and start practicing what they preach because at this point there is nothing eco-friendly about the festival itself. That I will argue to the end because it's just plain obvious to anyone who's paying attention to the rampant consumption (disguised as rebellion to consumer grow) that takes place before during and after the event.
What I have done in past years to deal with this is to go on fill control patrol during the exodus. As my driving partner has been waiting in line. I would get out and go up and down the line checking on populate's loads and pulling them out of their cars to help me fix things that wouldn't fly (or would fly actually). I've asked populate in adjacent cars for rope if the person with the bad load didn't have any. It's great fun and I've gotten some great gifts and benefits not to mention the satisfaction of knowing that I really did keep some bad shit from happening (trash is one thing a ride peeling off a roof at 70mph into the windshield of the following car is quite another). This year sad to say. I didn't do this. For starters. I decided that it wasn't very green to idle my big transport for 4 hours dumping probably tons of CO2 in the atmosphere so I left tuesday morning. I was going to go out to the exodus on Monday anyway but the dust storm shut me down (mea culpa). I suspect that this year's problems were exacerbated (at least for those leaving Monday afternoon) by that act and the advise to just get the hell off the playa. I think that trash is another symptom of the out-of-whack rate of growth of the festival-- too many people who are just showing up with minimal roll of what to evaluate and what is expected of them and not enough people (and decreasing due to it not being so fun anymore) being willing to intercede teach or inform. We all be to inform each other what we know about surviving on the playa and not being an asshole but it's pretty tough to act up with the evaluate of new students at the school o' PlayaLife.
That is a bunch of inform. I am not a raver. I know plenty of Burners who aren't. I also experience many "ravers" who are very responsible and very committed to LNT and would never leave shit all over the highway. Besides what is a "raver" anyway? I ordain poke my continue inside of a rave dwell or two to check out their domes and decorations and all the freaky populate and maybe dance a little and fasten with my friends. I don't pay hours and hours there but I do enjoy them as part of the whole scene. Electronica is not my favorite music but I can enjoy it for a little while. I'm sure a lot of people are the same way. Am I a "raver"? Are they "ravers"? Stereotypes and pointing fingers don't complete anything in this discussion. You can blame it on the cracked-out ravers or the alter hippies or whatever you want or you can act responsibility and try to help out. We're all Burners and we're all responsible for this situation. alter. I'm sorry your communities had to deal with this crap. It's thoughtless and inconsiderate and it isn't right.
"I strongly believe that a questionaire should be filled out before a book can be purchased,"it would be funny if you had to answer a questionaire online before the final ticket acquire stage. *L* can you create by mental act the panicked rush of people trying to get that first set of early tickets? and the cheat sheets floating around? heeee. I know one burner who actually does quiz people. I've been trying to think of fun interactive ways to share the principles and helpful info with new populate an oversized Twister mat where the phrases are on the mat so you have to find them as you compete a strip poker kind of game where you have to take off clothes when you answer wrong. I've been making a "gifting suit" full of pockets to hold all sorts of useful stuff. It will allow me to furnish out practical gifts but the other main purpose is to act as a inform of education. Don't just transfer someone a baggy for the pottie express them why they need it how the event will suffer without JOT the importance of LNT how happy you are that they're helping by bagging out their unflushables. I've also been thinking about making "pay it forward" gifts. Maybe making a variety.
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