![]() “They’re forgetting the core principles of the burn.” “People are starting to leave a trace,” said Longoria, 37, while cleaning his mud-stained boots outside of a Walmart in Reno. ![]() Jeffrey Longoria of San Francisco said since he started attending, trash issues have gotten worse. “If it is a matter of staying overnight one extra day to do the work to clean up, most of the people are doing that.”īut that sentiment is not felt by everyone. Leave no trace is “a strong principle,” she said Tuesday after taking a shuttle to Reno-Tahoe International Airport. There are signs outside nearby grocery stores banning disposal of Burning Man-related trash and recycling in their bins.Įleonora Segreti, who lives in central Italy and made her second visit this year to Burning Man, left the site early Tuesday. Car washes at times turned away vehicles too caked in mud and clay, according to KTVN-TV in Reno. This week, many attendees descended on the airport in Reno, Nevada, to get last-minute flights home. In a normal year, the desert floor is harder and easier to navigate, but flooding and deep imprints from vehicles spinning tires in the muck have made traveling there more difficult. One of the principles of Burning Man is to leave no trace - an expectation that all attendees will pack out everything they brought to Black Rock City and clean out their camps before leaving.īut in the aftermath of torrential rains that closed roads, jammed traffic and forced many to walk miles barefoot through the muck, the area is dotted with abandoned vehicles, rugs, furniture, tents and trash. The annual gathering, which launched on a San Francisco beach in 1986, attracts nearly 80,000 artists, musicians and activists to the sprawling stretch of public land for a weeklong mix of wilderness camping and avant-garde performances. ![]() Now, as Burning Man slowly empties, it’s time to clean up.īurning Man organizers have three weeks to clean up any remnants of the makeshift city plopped across over four square miles (10 square kilometers) of the Black Rock Desert in northwestern Nevada, but a summer storm that left tens of thousands stranded in ankle-deep mud could alter that timeframe. The rain has passed, and the temple has burned. ![]()
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