First, all rotting, decomposing garbage is bagged and carried or trucked to rented debris boxes stationed at the entrance. Next, we concentrate on separating valuable materials from junk. Valuables are loaded on trucks and trailers and removed to the DPW Depot for storage. Junk is put in the debris boxes. Any burnable debris and junk is burned on site.
Local ranchers are allow to take the remaining straw bails.
Once all the major surface garbage is removed burn piles are grouped as much as possible using shovels, rakes and the shovel on a Bob-Cat tractor. Burn areas contain charcoal, metal hardware, broken glass and other debris. The surface of the burn areas are scraped and shoveled into trailers for removal to the debris boxes. Broken glass and other remains, left after scraping, must be picked up by hand. The last task is to remove the ruts caused by driving on the wet playa and holes dug by participants.