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.
WE SHARE THIS LAND
Bass Coast is held on is located 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 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 placed throughout the site. Know the location of the Recycling Depot for your specific campground (marked with ♻ symbols on the map).
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.
What Is Moop?
LEAVE NO TRACE
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
Compost
All food waste, including meat, seafood, dairy, and bones, and all vegetable and fruit scraps
All compostable serviceware from vendors and bars
Soiled and unlined cardboard
Untreated wood
- Please rinse your recycling
- Hard plastic, #1-7 (excluding beverage containers which go to returnables)
- Plastic caps, tops, lids and pumps
- Tin cans
- Aerosol cans (empty)
- All other metals, excluding aluminum cans (these go into returnables)
- Foil wrap and take out containers
- Dry, flattened cardboard
- Dry, unsoiled paper
- Anything that can’t be cleaned goes into landfill!
SPECIALIST RECYCLING: The items below can be brought to the Eco Hub for recycling:
- Extinguished cigarette butts can be disposed into the white coffee cans around the festival grounds. Please don't put anything else in these receptacles as it contaminates the recyclables.
- Used batteries
- Used vapes
- Electronic waste
- Empty propane tanks
- Untreated wood
- Clean soft plastics
- Scrap metal
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
Where Does Our Recycling Go?
Curious about where our recycling goes after we finish sorting it? We work with several service providers to make sure we recycle as much material as possible.
- Returnables (beverage containers) go to the Merritt Return-It Depot.
- Recyclable material that isn’t a returnable goes to the Lower Nicola Eco-Depot, or Emterra in Kamloops.
- Compost is transported to the Stswékstem facility in Kamloops.
- Cigarette butts go to Terracycle. Once collected, the cigarette waste is cleaned and separated by material type. The materials are recycled into raw formats that manufacturers use to make new products. The ash and tobacco are separated out and composted in a specialized process
The 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 to eat at the food vendors.
Ask us your sustainability questions at the Eco Hub or contact basscoastgreenteam@gmail.com after the festival. We would love to connect with all Bass Coast community members who care about the environment.
Cigarette filters are the worst form of MOOP
Pocket Ashtrays
Bass Coast is dedicated to LEAVE NO TRACE. Pocket Ashtrays are reusable, flexible, air-tight pouch made of recycled materials that suffocates smokes and traps odour inside. Outreach staff distribute pocket ashtrays and they are available for purchase at the Bass Coast General Store.
Butts are the most littered item in the world, an estimated 4.95 trillion are littered annually worldwide - that's 1.69 billion lbs!
Carelessly discarded cigarette butts are the cause of countless unnecessary wildfires, and the main cause of deadly structure fires.
Wildlife can mistake butts for food. It poisons them, plugs up their bellies, and causes death for animals such as fish, birds and frogs.
One cigarette butt can contaminate approximately 40 litres of water. Contaminated water is lethal to aquatic life.
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.