Anyone who has ever been around at the end of a club night, rave or festival knows this inherent truth: Humans are gross . When the sun comes out or the house lights go up, no ground score can minimize how trashed a location is once the party stops. Walking to the exit is an exercise in not tripping over water bottles, food wrappers and every variation on VapoRub you can imagine. Bodily fluids (and occasionally solids!) appear in places they should never be. When people gather to celebrate, things get grimy. And gooey. And, “God, what did I step in?”

Deep Tropics Music, Art, & Style Festival , Aug. 15-16 at Bicentennial Mall Capitol State Park

Sustainability Summit 5 p.m. Aug. 14 at Studio 615

But what if it didn’t have to be that way? What if we, as party people, could leave

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