Education Series
Leave No Trace
Bass Coast is a Leave No Trace event. Familiarize yourself with the environmental infrastructure on site. Help us successfully implement sustainable waste and resource management practices at Bass Coast. PACK IT IN...PACK IT OUT.
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We Share This Land
Bass Coast is held on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Nlaka'pamux and Syilx people. This land is shared by local wildlife, farm animals and fish. Bass Coast commits to keep the area clean and safe for all mammals and aquatic life after the festival has left the land each year. Before you leave, help us by cleaning up the tiniest sparkle of MOOP (Matter Out of Place) from the festival grounds.
Keep Your Camp Organized
Keep your camp waste organized. Bring a black bag for garbage and clear ones for recycling and returnables. Bring a bin for your compost. Grab more bags from the Eco Hub if you run out.
Locate the Bin Stations
Locate the bin stations placed throughout the site. Know the location of the Recycling Depot for your specific campground (marked with ♻ symbols on the map).
Visit the Eco Hub
Bring your sorted camp materials (returnables, recycling, compost, and garbage) to a Recycling Depots or to the Eco Hub. Scroll down to see which materials go into the different collection streams.
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Find Us On Site
Locate the Eco Hub and all Recycling Depots on the festival map. Find your campground's nearest depot before you set up camp.
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Leave no trace
What is
Moop?
MOOP means Matter Out Of Place. It refers to anything that is not originally of the land on which our event takes place. MOOP your campsite and the surrounding area.
How to moop
With the Bass Coast Girls
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Compost
All food waste including meat, seafood, dairy, bones, and all vegetable and fruit scraps. All compostable serviceware from vendors and bars. Soiled and unlined cardboard. Untreated wood.
Recycling
Hard plastic #1–7 (excluding beverage containers). Plastic caps, lids and pumps. Tin cans. Aerosol cans (empty). Foil wrap. Dry, flattened cardboard. Dry, unsoiled paper. Please rinse your recycling.
Returnables
Please empty your returnables. Aluminum cans. Plastic drink bottles. Tetra Pak containers. All beverage containers with a deposit value.
Landfill
Chip bags & candy wrappers. Styrofoam. Baby wipes. Soiled recyclables that cannot be cleaned.
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Specialist Recycling at the Eco Hub
Bring these items to the Eco Hub: used batteries, used vapes, electronic waste, empty propane tanks, untreated wood, clean soft plastics, scrap metal. Extinguished cigarette butts can be disposed into the white coffee cans around the festival grounds.
Where Does Our Recycling Go?
Returnables go to the Merritt Return-It Depot. Recyclables go to the Lower Nicola Eco-Depot or Emterra in Kamloops. Compost is transported to the Stswékstem facility in Kamloops. Cigarette butts go to Terracycle — cleaned, separated by material, and recycled into new products.
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Bass Coast
Eco Hub
The HQ of all things sustainability at Bass Coast. Open 9am–9pm.
Bring your sorted camp materials and specialist recycling to the Eco Hub. Come wash your reusable container or cutlery at our sink after using it at the food vendors. Ask us your sustainability questions at the Eco Hub or contact basscoastgreenteam@gmail.com after the festival.
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Pocket
Ashtrays
Cigarette filters are the worst form of MOOP. Pocket Ashtrays are reusable, flexible, air-tight pouches made of recycled materials that suffocate smokes and trap odour inside. Outreach staff distribute pocket ashtrays and they are available for purchase at the Bass Coast General Store.
4.95 Trillion
Butts are the most littered item in the world — an estimated 4.95 trillion are littered annually worldwide. That's 1.69 billion lbs.
Wildfire Risk
Carelessly discarded cigarette butts are the cause of countless unnecessary wildfires, and the main cause of deadly structure fires.
Wildlife Danger
Wildlife can mistake butts for food. It poisons them, plugs up their bellies, and causes death for animals such as fish, birds and frogs.
40 Litres
One cigarette butt can contaminate approximately 40 litres of water. Contaminated water is lethal to aquatic life.
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Recycle
Your
Butts
Find the Ashtrays (white cans) at designated smoking areas and throughout the site and at the Eco Hub to empty your Pocket Ashtray. The cigarette waste will be recycled. Please use your Pocket Ashtray at Bass Coast and on your journey to and from the festival — careless disposal of butts causes countless preventable wildfires.
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