This year's Burning Man in the Nevada desert was marked by an extremely rare torrential rain. There's still a lot of trash to be picked up.
Critics have long accused Burning Man organizers ofOrganizers and attendees started returning to the site on Wednesday to start cleaning up, a process that can take weeks, per"After exodus, the Burning Man team has three weeks where they grid out the entire event area and pick up all items and trash," Burning Man spokesperson Rita Henderson told. "In addition, they clean along the side of the county highways leading to and from the event.
Despite those efforts, many environmental groups have long pointed out the event's considerable carbon footprint. According to , Burning Man releases some 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of the emissions created to power 19,000 homes for a year.on the one road in and out of the festival site, but tribal police eventually shut it down.
Then there's the local fauna and flora, with biologists warning of native brush being trampled. The eggs of small crustaceans, which hatch after rainfall, could also be destroyed,At the end of the day, even if Burners pick up all their trash, the environmental damage caused by the massive festival is still palpable."carbon negative, sustainably manage waste, and be ecologically regenerative by 2030.
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