Never Take Trash Home Again

Waste is an unavoidable by-product of life in general and of course life on the Playa.  Burning Man is the largest festival type gathering on BLM Land in the United States.  These and other agencies conduct spot inspections to the effectiveness of the overall Leave No Trace ethos, one of the Burning Man Project's credo's.

MOOP Be Gone manages the safe and sanitary storage, collection, transportation, and disposal of solid and liquid waste in Northern Nevada. The company is also responsible for the design, development, implementation, and promotion of recycling, waste reduction, and waste diversion programs for the Burning Man Festival, which takes place at the end of August each year in the Black Rock Desert, North of Gerlach, Nevada

 But Where Does the Trash Go?

MOOP Be Gone knows Trash and what to do with it.  Weather you use our Theme Camp Pickup service or you drop-off your trash on your way Off-Playa at our Waste Disposal Center, the trash makes its way to a "materials recovery facility (MRF)" to be sorted. MRF's sort out the reusable and recyclable materials. The things that can be used again are then taken to recycling facilities. Just imagine, the plastic water bottle that you accidentally threw into the trash can will be melted down and remade into something else. Will it be a plastic bag, another water bottle, art?

The rest of the trash is transported to a landfill.  A landfill is not a simple hole in the ground to dump waste! A landfill is usually lined on the bottom and sides with plastic or clay to prevent water and trash from leaking into the ground, much the same way the pool is lined with concrete to prevent the water from going into the ground. The trash is poured into the landfill and covered by a layer of soil so that the trash doesn’t fly away, get wet, or get into the surrounding area to affect wildlife. Each day’s layer of trash and soil is a "cell" of trash that gets stacked on top of one another like a row of dominoes. They repeat this process until the landfill is full.

You know the three Rs – reduce, reuse and recycle. Waste reduction, which is making less garbage in the first place, is the preferred option of MOOP Be Gone. Reduction is followed by reuse, which means repairing items, donating them to a charity or selling them. Reuse is followed by recycling and composting – both of which turn materials that would become waste into valuable new resources. MOOP Be Gone works with Burners Without Borders in their efforts to Re-use Lumber & other building materials thrown away at Burning Man for humanitarian projects all over the United States.

"MOOP Be Gone has a strong commitment to it's customers and the Burning Man Community, as well as greater Northern Nevada, and an excellent track record in protecting and enhancing the environment", says ScottoBobScotto, CEO