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The inevitable 'stray bikes' left behind by visitors to our camp will either be assimilated into the disorient fleet where storage is possible or brought to Playa Info so that no bikes will remain within disorient after disengage.
The inevitable 'stray bikes' left behind by visitors to our camp will either be assimilated into the disorient fleet where storage is possible or brought to Playa Info so that no bikes will remain within disorient after disengage.


=='''MUST DO'''==
=='''MUST DO KNOW HOW FOR THE DISORIENTED CAMPER'''==
1. Remove all excess packaging before you bring it to BRC.<br />
1. Remove all excess packaging before you bring it to BRC.<br />
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Revision as of 21:00, 5 April 2010

LNT (Leave No Trace) PLAN
by Disorient's MOOP Czar

DISORIENT's 2010 LNT PLAN

In 2007, resulting from a variety of factors, disorient was marked red on the moop map. This was an indication that we needed to redevelop our exit strategy, with the aspiration of moving from red to green on the map for 2008 and subsequent years. And we did! Disorient marked green in 2008 and 2009, with the support of a fabulous post disengage, playa restoration crew.

Ocean, who joined forces with DPW in 2007 for the Playa Restoration project, will contribute her experience in mooping strategies to disorient in 2010, and help coordinate our camp's cleanup planning.

Our new policy is: No MOOP left behind.

INFORMING THE MASSES

In 2010 disorient will ensure that everyone registered to camp with us will receive a copy of our LNT plan for 2010 and asked to acknowledge their pARTicipation in the cleanup effort. A strike crew will be coordinated during the early planning phases of the camp.

Groups of campers will be asked to identify what they will do to MOOP their space.

Projects within disorient will develop individual LNT plans and identify key people responsible for MOOPing their space.

When greeting campers on site, we will also take a moment to remind them of the importance of their participation in our LNT plan.

Campers will be asked to moop their individual sites, and remove ALL rebar before leaving for exodus.

And speaking of Exodus, campers will be reminded to donate copiously to Exodus on the way out of BRC.

LINE SWEEPS

Line sweeps, especially in the communal areas of camp will take place daily, or after major dust events on playa. Campers will be asked to commit to pARTicipating in the line sweeps during our camp planning meetings.

Line sweeps will take place on a more intensive scale in the days following the event when most campers have left disorient. A core group of people will remain behind to git 'er done.


MAJOR PROJECTS

Wood chips represent one of the most commonly found MOOP on the playa. In 2010, drop cloths will be laid down for any construction involving wood.

The disorient containers have carpets and drop cloths laid out in front of them during the unloading phase and through the week, to minimize impact of little moop that comes out of the containers.

Disorient has a metal rake and will use it within project areas to pick up lost screws, nuts, bolts and random other.

BIKES

In 2010 we will encourage campers to love their bikes and bring them home to use as year round sustainable transportation.

The inevitable 'stray bikes' left behind by visitors to our camp will either be assimilated into the disorient fleet where storage is possible or brought to Playa Info so that no bikes will remain within disorient after disengage.

MUST DO KNOW HOW FOR THE DISORIENTED CAMPER

1. Remove all excess packaging before you bring it to BRC.

2. Set-up separate containers for the following:
• disgusting non-recyclable, non-burnable trash
• beer cans and aluminum--these can all be brought to recycle camp (can these be crushed?)
• Plastic. Water jugs should be flattened once empty.
• Paper products and burnable stuff.
• Glass

3. HIDE YOUR TRASH AND RECYCLING either under your RV if you're in one or maybe under a secured tarp or wherever people who are just traveling thru camp won't throw shit into them. This will reduce the amount of trash you have to take out in the end and more importantly reduce the amount of time you spend separating recycling from nasty ass trash.

4. Take a few extra bags of trash out with you when you leave the Playa. As the huge wonderful camp that we are, we are going to accumulate a bunch of garbage that isn't ours. I'm going to ask everyone to take out more trash than they brought in.

5. Bring twice as many trash bags as you think you will need so you can share them with your neighbor. A minimum of 20 heavy duty 3 mil or 4 mil (that's the thickness of the plastic, it is written on the container the bags come in) "contractor grade" garbage bags per sub camp. If you have extras at the end, DPW will love you for leaving them with them on the way out.

6. No disposable (plastic) cups. Bring large plastic tumblers, write your name on them and use those. If you bring a really nice cup it can become part of your playa persona. Leo was given by Steven a beautiful chalice in 2005 that he has been using it ever since.

7. Don't throw any plastic or glass into the burn barrels. Inhaling burning plastic makes you feel weird, and not in a good way and glass in the barrels pisses of the DPW.

8. Don't dump your grey water. . i.e. if you do your dishes, don't pour the water out onto the ground afterwards. Let it evaporate in a grey water pool.

9. Pick it up as you go.

10. Check with me a few hours before you leave.

MIGHT DO

1. Avoid glass. No glass beer bottles please. We can bring all cans to recycle camp. Glass takes up more room in the fridge and cooler, you can't shotgun them and it is a bitch to deal with if they break.
Can we crush the cans?
2. Consider drying out perishable refuse to burn. This includes anything you might compost. Hang it in a mesh bag, let it dry and then burn it.

3. Help me with daily runs to recycle camp. I'll love you for it.

4. Burn your burnables. My sister, who is an ecology major says this is bad to do, but I think on such a small scale it can't hurt too much. You decide to recycle or burn it.

5. Help with a midweek trash run. You'll love yourself for it.
If you want people to carry your trash keep it in medium sized bags, light enough to be lifted by the weakest most tired person you have ever met. If its leaky or gooey, double bag it or the friend won't goo up his car just cuz you're in disorient. If you string your bags together, use an easily removable knot.

6. Bring glass over to the glassblowers camp so they can melt it down into something pretty.

Making it better

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