the one thing crews and partygoers are really being pulled up on is litter/environmental damage (as people are finally getting smarter about noise)
OK the feds might try and frighten people away at the end of the party saying they might quiz them for being “organisers” – but the fact they actually do this must show how valuable a weapon the mess left behind (plus its forensic value) [1] is to try and justify raves being stopped.
So why not try and stop the litter building up during the daytime, rather than at the last moment?
I reckon nos is one of the biggest causes of extra litter due to balloons and metal canisters[2] but ravers perhaps need to check themselves and not constantly drop stuff around the place!
At the last forest party I went to the crews had actually set up a framework to which black bags were attached (and at least some people were using this!)
for the crews, one of those litter picker things that council bods / janitors use only costs a tenner or so from industrial equipment places (so you don’t have to pick up rank rubbish with your hands)
With society finally realising the environment is worth protecting, theres more of an urgency about preventing any environmental damage from raves, especially as not all of society feels you have the “right” to put them on..
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[1] people mislay bank cards, they use cashpoint slips as snorter tubes, flyers get used as wraps. All these things can be used to identify individuals or groups. Cops collect flyers of legal events as they consider all dance events to be linked with drugs and organised crime.
[2] these have scrap value, as do bottles and cans!
