the smell of carpet burning mmmmmmm

burnthis · Post by **burnthis** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:49 pm

We walk around the playa we pick up trash that has blown away from some camp. We strain our gray water. We recycle our cans and plastic. We separate everything that is burnable from non burnable. We all do this all week while on the Playa. We do this because we care about the world we live in not because we are told to do so. Then come Sunday. What happens? People start burning materials that are not to be burned at Burningman. Such as rugs, carpeting, couches, plastic, ETC These are all toxic materials when burnt. Does people not care about there air quality we breath. Do people like to look up in the sky and see black smoke coming from the carpeting that was just put on the fire pit. I just don't get it. Sunday on the playa is so depressing after just having a wonderful week with what I thought was like minded people. Then I see we are not all environmentally health cautious. We all don't care about the air we breath.
In closing next year please please please find out what you can burn or not burn befor burning. If in question ask ask ask ask.

RebA! · Post by **RebA!** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:55 pm

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 9:05 pm

Expect the burning toxics to be one of the hot button issues to come to the fore for 2005.

Sobretta Franjipan · Post by **Sobretta Franjipan** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:06 am

------------------------------------------------------------------------Expect the burning toxics to be one of the hot button issues to come to the fore for 2005.

Does that mean we can all have a break from the endless Port O' Pottie PSAs??

Rabbi Dali Rick · Post by **Rabbi Dali Rick** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 8:19 am

Does that mean we can all have a break from the endless Port O' Pottie PSAs??

NEVER!!! They are actually masked post hypnotic suggests bent on making you vote this year.

decisevly,
the rebbi

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:11 am

NEVER!!! They are actually masked post hypnotic suggests bent on making you vote this year.

Yeah, I can't keep count of the number of votes I cast for Bush in the toilets this year.

Chai Guy · Post by **Chai Guy** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:39 pm

I guess all the neon, wires, transformers, paint, and other materials used in the building of the Man are all EPA approved and non toxic?

You should have been around when they just piled the couches on the playa, threw gasoline on them and then lit them on fire. I remember one morning after the burn seeing at least 100 or so seperate fires. (all without the benefit of a burn platform).

Still I get your point and totally agree with you.

Sobretta Franjipan · Post by **Sobretta Franjipan** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:35 pm

------------------------------------------------------------------------I guess all the neon, wires, transformers, paint, and other materials used in the building of the Man are all EPA approved and non toxic?

You should have been around when they just piled the couches on the playa, threw gasoline on them and then lit them on fire. I remember one morning after the burn seeing at least 100 or so seperate fires. (all without the benefit of a burn platform).

Thank you! But when you have the benefit of $6 mill behind you I guess those toxins don't count.

Ohhhhhh, back in the day. As a diehard recycler, non-MOOPer, no waste type person I would love to go back to BURN EVERYTHING THROW IT IN THE FIRE!! Sunday was the best. A truck would pull up with a huge couch, throw it in and the mini crowd would go apeshit. Then another fire would catch your eye and the race would be on to the next fire with the freshest couches/carpets. Sorry, there is no shame in my game in loving that.

(I am prepared for a granola barrage...)

the smell of carpet burning mmmmmmm

the smell of carpet burning mmmmmmm

........I'll miss me when I'm gone..........