 |
The goal of this site is to be a community resource for people who want to share ideas, projects, reviews, and deals on non-glow-stick based lighting technologies. The idea for this site came to me on Nevada Highway 443 on the way back from Burning Man this year. There was a ruptured bag of trash on the highway, and it seemed the entire contents were spent glow sticks and necklaces. Thinking back over my burn, I realized that more than half of the MOOP I picked up had been dead chemical lights. As much as I loved light sticks as a kid, I was suddenly thinking of them as very wasteful. Use once, and throw away; and they are not recyclable. Combine that with the casualness with which people discard them and it is no wonder many scuba diving destinations have banned them. I've been to a lot of 'leave no trace' events, on and off of the playa; and it's easier to live up that ideal when you pack light on items that generate a lot of waste. With glow sticks, they become 100% waste once they are used. With all the recent push to 'be green', it seems almost irresponsible to be using single-use items like light sticks. With these thoughts in mind, I thought I'd set up a site where people could exchange ideas and resources for re-usable lighting and costuming. There are lots of alternatives to chemical lights, and many of them can be more artfully incorporated into bicycles, costuming and camps. Please visit the Death to Playa Glo Worms Forums for more information. |