You have great experiences and your area was clean.... I can accept that and it’s lovely...
Not just 'clean' but cleaner than when we arrived.
but, in general, people there are pigs and they did a lousy job cleaning...
Uh.... no. You are deriving far more from this single substantive sentence than you should:
"the Bureau of Land Management, the federal agency which oversees Burning Man, expressed concern about the number of folks pooping and peeing in the deep playa."
You see:
1. BLM mandates a 'zero impact' presence on the land
2. This means that a single pop can left over is a violation
3. As such, the event necessarily has to add 'leave no trace' as one of the *published* core principles that define the culture
4. in addition to pushing LNT, they of course have to provide services, paid and volunteers to manage, inspect and clean camping areas
5. Paradoxically, this also means providing NO GARBAGE BINS
6. in the end, the event is indisputably far cleaner than any other form of festival
Once I was in Queen's Park after the annual 4/20 weed march and there were clods of garbage everywhere, of course being cleaned up by the city.
So they can say that the festival left a 'mess' in the deep playa (which is one remote area of the event) however the bar is much higher.
Not just garbage... they’re shitting where they shouldn’t.
https://www.rgj.com/story/life/arts/burning-man/2018/07/18/burning-man-ravers-stop-pooping-playa/792541002/ [/quote]