BYB Cleanup Plan 2008

Any questions about cleanup issues should be referred to
any of those members that have done it before - i.e. CTP, Andy, Spencer, etc.

CTP will have the final say in any cleanup issue since it's his ass on the line if something isn't kosher.

We will remove all possible items from their packaging before leaving home for BRC.

Smaller items should be grouped into larger re-usable containers.

Any potential mess making items should be evaluated on their usefulness and modified to not make a mess (i.e. when we taped every edge of every piece of astroturf we bring) or left at home if possible. These include things like the afforementioned astroturf, feathers of any kind-but especially boas, items with glitter glued onto them, anything which sheds its stuff.

Foodstuffs will be removed from packaging whenever possible, and/or re-packaged in more sensible containers.

Foods which create a lot of waste products should be avoided, i.e. nuts in their shells, chicken with bones, etc.

Each and every camp member will take it as a personal responsibility to never ever step over and leave a piece of MOOP, in BYB camp, or in BRC in general.

Our shower is designed to capture all grey water - please be sure you bring grey water containers with you to BRC, and that you use them when taking a shower...never, ever use the shower without having a container under it. Due to past issues the showers will be locked, and the combination will be kept by the camp leaders. Go find one, and ask to be let in. They will give you a tour of the shower, and explain how to use it. We will have our grey water evaporator again this year. The use of it will be explained to everyone in BYB.

We request, please please please, that people only bring Dr. Bronner's soaps only if at all possible.

BYB will have plenty of trash bags on hand which are to be used for refuse and recyclables. When full, all bags will be tied shut and put into the big trailer so they don't blow away. Do not fill trash bags so full that they risk ripping and dumping.We will make it easier this year to tell where each kind of recycleble goes to keep them separate - if you don't know what's recycleable, just ask a camp leader.

All waste products (grey water, refuse, recyclables) will be disposed of properly back in Reno, or in the Bay Area.

If it's light enough to blow away, don't leave it where it will get blown away...nail it down, move it, etc.

If it didn't come out of your body, it doesn't go into the potty. Learn it, live it, love it.

When camp is broken down at the end of BM2007, every camp member will scour our site, using a grid search, repeatedly, for any MOOP, any rebar stakes, any tent stakes, any anything. Once scoured...scour it again.

Every camp member is encouraged to perform 2 hours of playa cleanup at the end of Burning Man. Doing this each year has helped the official post-event cleanup crews get their job done on time. 2 Hours per citizen holds the potential to provide 80,000 person-hours of labor to the effort...please do it.

Smokers - you will carry a closeable ashtray (like an Altoids tin) with you to keep your butts in, and to pick up the butts of less considerate smokers. No cigarette butts on the playa ever. No cigarette butts in the potties ever.

This list is not negotiable...to be a member of BYB you gotta be willing to do whatever you can to help keep the desert clean. Everything else you feel like doing may be cool...messing up the playa is not.