GREEN LEEDS
At Leeds Festival we aim to reduce the environmental impact of the festival and have put together ways of you can help us by doing your part, while still having an awesome festival.
In 2007 we introduced some new ways of looking at recycling which we also repeated with great success last year. This included the10p deposit and refund on beer cups. We got close to every single cup back, a massively fantastic result. Thanks to everyone who was at the festival and got into that campaign. We also started the 20p deposit on water bottles. Thousands of them were returned, but there were still many left behind. Remember that every bottle of water sold at the festival has a 20p deposit and you should return it to get your money back. (You’ll also be helping to increase the recycling rates.)
A big thanks to everyone who packed up their camping gear and took it back home with them last year. We also thank all those people that didn’t really want their gear anymore but took the time to pack it up and hand it in. Thousands of camping items such as tents, sleeping bags, camping mats, etc were donated and are making their way to community organisations and charity. We were overloaded with gear and it took our Green Messengers a lot of work to sort out everything, but we were so very happy with the result.This Year
Every drink sold over the bars in a cup will have a 10p deposit on it. All cup carrying trays will also be subject to the 10p deposit. So if you buy a shot, wine, spirit mixer, or beer, and carry your cups in a tray, there’s a 10p deposit. Take every cup and carrying tray from the bars back to the refund points to get your 10p’s back.
There is also a 20p deposit on all One Water bottles sold on site which feature the Festival Republic logo.
Please think about taking your camping gear home rather trashing it or leaving it to end up as trash. Mountain ranges of wrecked tents hit the landfill last year. If you don’t want your gear to end up in landfill and you don’t want to take it home, the only option is for you to keep it undamaged, to pack it up and hand it in for onwards donation. We would prefer you to take it home and re-use it at your next festival.
Leeds Festival is managed in compliance with BS8901.
Read through the various items on the left hand menu bar for more info on what’s in store in 2010.
In 2007 we introduced some new ways of looking at recycling which we also repeated with great success last year. This included the10p deposit and refund on beer cups. We got close to every single cup back, a massively fantastic result. Thanks to everyone who was at the festival and got into that campaign. We also started the 20p deposit on water bottles. Thousands of them were returned, but there were still many left behind. Remember that every bottle of water sold at the festival has a 20p deposit and you should return it to get your money back. (You’ll also be helping to increase the recycling rates.)
A big thanks to everyone who packed up their camping gear and took it back home with them last year. We also thank all those people that didn’t really want their gear anymore but took the time to pack it up and hand it in. Thousands of camping items such as tents, sleeping bags, camping mats, etc were donated and are making their way to community organisations and charity. We were overloaded with gear and it took our Green Messengers a lot of work to sort out everything, but we were so very happy with the result.This Year
Every drink sold over the bars in a cup will have a 10p deposit on it. All cup carrying trays will also be subject to the 10p deposit. So if you buy a shot, wine, spirit mixer, or beer, and carry your cups in a tray, there’s a 10p deposit. Take every cup and carrying tray from the bars back to the refund points to get your 10p’s back.
There is also a 20p deposit on all One Water bottles sold on site which feature the Festival Republic logo.
Please think about taking your camping gear home rather trashing it or leaving it to end up as trash. Mountain ranges of wrecked tents hit the landfill last year. If you don’t want your gear to end up in landfill and you don’t want to take it home, the only option is for you to keep it undamaged, to pack it up and hand it in for onwards donation. We would prefer you to take it home and re-use it at your next festival.
Leeds Festival is managed in compliance with BS8901.
Read through the various items on the left hand menu bar for more info on what’s in store in 2010.
REDUCE
BUYING STUFF
Limiting the amount of STUFF you kit yourself out with to come camping at the festivals for the weekend, will really help to reduce the overall environmental impact...especially if you are going to throw out your STUFF after the event.
The more STUFF you buy, the bigger your carbon footprint. Your STUFF is mined, manufactured, distributed, retailed and makes its way to your house - transport along the way, power used at every stage. The less STUFF you buy, the smaller your footprint's gonna be.
Before you buy anything for the festival (or even in everyday life), please take the time to watch this 20min film The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard.
www.storyofstuff.com
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20 minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.'
And when you decide to buy stuff, please think about taking it home with you and re-using it for the rest of the season. If you really don't need it, please PACK IT UP AND HAND IT IN!!!
We will have separate collection bays for:
* Tents, Sleeping Mats, Sleeping Bags
* Chairs
* General camping bits and pieces
* Wellies
* Clothes
* Unopened food
Look out for the collection points that will pop up on Monday morning on your way out of the campgrounds.
Limiting the amount of STUFF you kit yourself out with to come camping at the festivals for the weekend, will really help to reduce the overall environmental impact...especially if you are going to throw out your STUFF after the event.
The more STUFF you buy, the bigger your carbon footprint. Your STUFF is mined, manufactured, distributed, retailed and makes its way to your house - transport along the way, power used at every stage. The less STUFF you buy, the smaller your footprint's gonna be.
Before you buy anything for the festival (or even in everyday life), please take the time to watch this 20min film The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard.
www.storyofstuff.com
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20 minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.'
And when you decide to buy stuff, please think about taking it home with you and re-using it for the rest of the season. If you really don't need it, please PACK IT UP AND HAND IT IN!!!
We will have separate collection bays for:
* Tents, Sleeping Mats, Sleeping Bags
* Chairs
* General camping bits and pieces
* Wellies
* Clothes
* Unopened food
Look out for the collection points that will pop up on Monday morning on your way out of the campgrounds.
RECYCLE
YOUR CANS COUNT
It is estimated around 8 tonne of aluminium cans are at the festival after the party’s over. Much of this is left on the ground in the campgrounds. We want to let you know that YOUR CANS COUNT.
Bring back a bagful of cans to the Recycle Exchanges in the campgrounds, and we’ll give you a free can of beer. It’s that simple.
We’ll even give you the bag to collect the cans in. They’ll be handed out at wristband exchange when you enter the site, by our Green Messengers wandering the campgrounds, from your campsite manager’s caravan, and also from the Recycle Exchanges.
But how do YOUR CANS COUNT?
• For every tonne of aluminium cans recycled only 5% of energy is used than to make one from scratch. That’s a whopping 95% of energy reduced, just by sending cans for recycling.
• An aluminium can recycled could be back on the shelf as another can within six weeks.
• For every tonne of aluminium cans recycled, the aluminium can association of the UK, Alupro, will buy a fruit tree for projects in Malawi run by charity Ripple Africa.
The Litter Exchanges finish up on Sunday night so don’t forget to get your vouchers and redeem your beer before the bars shut…
It is estimated around 8 tonne of aluminium cans are at the festival after the party’s over. Much of this is left on the ground in the campgrounds. We want to let you know that YOUR CANS COUNT.
Bring back a bagful of cans to the Recycle Exchanges in the campgrounds, and we’ll give you a free can of beer. It’s that simple.
We’ll even give you the bag to collect the cans in. They’ll be handed out at wristband exchange when you enter the site, by our Green Messengers wandering the campgrounds, from your campsite manager’s caravan, and also from the Recycle Exchanges.
But how do YOUR CANS COUNT?
• For every tonne of aluminium cans recycled only 5% of energy is used than to make one from scratch. That’s a whopping 95% of energy reduced, just by sending cans for recycling.
• An aluminium can recycled could be back on the shelf as another can within six weeks.
• For every tonne of aluminium cans recycled, the aluminium can association of the UK, Alupro, will buy a fruit tree for projects in Malawi run by charity Ripple Africa.
The Litter Exchanges finish up on Sunday night so don’t forget to get your vouchers and redeem your beer before the bars shut…
CUP & TRAY DEPOSIT
In 2007 we introduced a highly successful way of drastically reducing the waste in the arena by having a 10p deposit on beer cups. In 2010 for the fourth year running the 10p deposit will be back and ensure just about every cup and tray will go for recycling rather than being left in the arena for you to wade through and then to end up in landfill.
You’ll pay a 10p deposit when you buy your drinks in cups over the bars. There’s also a 10p deposit on the cardboard cup carrying trays. You’ll get back the 10p when you return your cups and trays to the refund points. Each year more than 90% of the cups have been returned. Just amazing – that’s more than 6 tonnes of cardboard which was diverted from landfill.
You’ll pay a 10p deposit when you buy your drinks in cups over the bars. There’s also a 10p deposit on the cardboard cup carrying trays. You’ll get back the 10p when you return your cups and trays to the refund points. Each year more than 90% of the cups have been returned. Just amazing – that’s more than 6 tonnes of cardboard which was diverted from landfill.
WATER BOTTLE DEPOSIT
To work towards getting all the plastic water bottles recycled, each bottle of water sold at the festival will have a 20p deposit charged. When you’ve finished, bring back the empty bottle to the refund points to get your 20p back. Only water sold at stores onsite will be refundable. Other plastic bottles should be placed in the recycling bins.COMPOST
We’ve not tackled the problem of collecting biodegradable waste produced by the audience at the festival as yet. We have been working towards it over the past couple of years and think we are ready to give it a good go in 2010.
So what does this mean?
When you buy food from the traders everything your food comes in is biodegradable. In the arena we will have bins and mobile Compost Crew to collect your food rubbish once you’re finished. By putting the hamburger plate or chip carton in the compost bin your helping in a big way.
First you won’t have to sit on someone’s old hot dog that’s been squished into the ground while you’re trying to enjoy your kebab.
Next, and we think it’s a pretty good reason, by collecting biodegradable rubbish separately and sending it for composting, we prevent it going to landfill. We estimate that around 70% of the rubbish coming out of the arena is compostable, so we really hope that we can collect it all up and make a massive dint in our landfill footprint.
Using plastic or polystyrene food packaging is not sustainable – they’re not only oil based but polystyrene can’t be efficiently recycled, and plastic containers that aren’t washed out can’t be recycled either.
Please make sure NO PLASTIC goes into the compost bins as otherwise the whole load may be rejected.
So what does this mean?
When you buy food from the traders everything your food comes in is biodegradable. In the arena we will have bins and mobile Compost Crew to collect your food rubbish once you’re finished. By putting the hamburger plate or chip carton in the compost bin your helping in a big way.
First you won’t have to sit on someone’s old hot dog that’s been squished into the ground while you’re trying to enjoy your kebab.
Next, and we think it’s a pretty good reason, by collecting biodegradable rubbish separately and sending it for composting, we prevent it going to landfill. We estimate that around 70% of the rubbish coming out of the arena is compostable, so we really hope that we can collect it all up and make a massive dint in our landfill footprint.
Using plastic or polystyrene food packaging is not sustainable – they’re not only oil based but polystyrene can’t be efficiently recycled, and plastic containers that aren’t washed out can’t be recycled either.
Please make sure NO PLASTIC goes into the compost bins as otherwise the whole load may be rejected.
INDUSTRY GREEN
Julie’s Bicycle (JB) is partnering with us as part of their work helping the UK music community reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
JB is a not for profit company that brings together music biz know-how and climate science to research where we’re at now, and what a low carbon music experience should look like.
Its primary goal is to reduce the GHG emissions which cause climate change. Emissions come from many sources: the energy used for lighting and sound, the waste that ends up in landfill which produces methane, water and sewerage treatment (which has its own substantial energy demands!) and audience travel.
JB looked at the biggest festivals in the UK last summer and found that 60% of all cars driven to festivals have 2 or less people in them – given that audiences getting to festivals produces over two thirds of its carbon emissions you can all help festivals go green - share cars, travel by coach and train or get on your bike.
To help festivals reduce their emissions JB has developed Industry Green. It’s a way of measuring and managing an event’s climate impacts over time and – most important of all – taking steps to reduce it. The result is a better festival for you and a better festival for the planet.
For more info go to www.juliesbicycle.com
JB is a not for profit company that brings together music biz know-how and climate science to research where we’re at now, and what a low carbon music experience should look like.
Its primary goal is to reduce the GHG emissions which cause climate change. Emissions come from many sources: the energy used for lighting and sound, the waste that ends up in landfill which produces methane, water and sewerage treatment (which has its own substantial energy demands!) and audience travel.
JB looked at the biggest festivals in the UK last summer and found that 60% of all cars driven to festivals have 2 or less people in them – given that audiences getting to festivals produces over two thirds of its carbon emissions you can all help festivals go green - share cars, travel by coach and train or get on your bike.
To help festivals reduce their emissions JB has developed Industry Green. It’s a way of measuring and managing an event’s climate impacts over time and – most important of all – taking steps to reduce it. The result is a better festival for you and a better festival for the planet.
For more info go to www.juliesbicycle.com
HANDY TIPS FOR GREEN CAMPERS
The following are tips for you include:
• Minimise the amount of packaging on products purchased
• Avoid buying over-packaged goods and individual portion packs
• Buy durable products, returnable bottles and containers that can be re-filled
• Look out for recycled goods and those packaged in recycled materials
• Cut down on packaging by buying your fruit and vegetables loose
• Buy fair-trade and organic food, drinks and products at stalls if possible
• Use re-sealable containers to keep your food fresh (this reduces the amount of plastic film and aluminium foil you throw away)
• Use rechargeable batteries
• Where you can, recycle what you cannot reuse
• Don't drop your litter. Use the bins and recycling units!
• Litter pickers are lovely! Please help them and make up for 'messy' times
• Don't leave rubbish or indeed your entire camping set behind!
• Say no to plastic bags if offered by market vendors. Bring your own re-useable cloth bag.
• Please please please don’t drop your cigarette butts. Every butt you throw on the ground has to be picked up by someone else. Use an empty film canister to collect your butts.
• Separate your waste at your campsite and bring your recycling to the appropriate bins.
• Use public transport and our shuttle bus service if possible, or look for a lift through Lift Share.
• If you must use your car, then please consider a Lift Share scheme. Making sure your tyres are properly inflated will mean that your car will run more efficiently and will reduce your carbon emissions. If you are in a queue to enter the site, please turn off your engine rather than idling the car.
• Use only phosphate free shampoo and soap in the showers and remember to take a short shower!
• Turn off taps & showers when finished.
• Live by the 'LEAVE NO TRACE' philosophy – take only photos, leave only footprints.
• Minimise the amount of packaging on products purchased
• Avoid buying over-packaged goods and individual portion packs
• Buy durable products, returnable bottles and containers that can be re-filled
• Look out for recycled goods and those packaged in recycled materials
• Cut down on packaging by buying your fruit and vegetables loose
• Buy fair-trade and organic food, drinks and products at stalls if possible
• Use re-sealable containers to keep your food fresh (this reduces the amount of plastic film and aluminium foil you throw away)
• Use rechargeable batteries
• Where you can, recycle what you cannot reuse
• Don't drop your litter. Use the bins and recycling units!
• Litter pickers are lovely! Please help them and make up for 'messy' times
• Don't leave rubbish or indeed your entire camping set behind!
• Say no to plastic bags if offered by market vendors. Bring your own re-useable cloth bag.
• Please please please don’t drop your cigarette butts. Every butt you throw on the ground has to be picked up by someone else. Use an empty film canister to collect your butts.
• Separate your waste at your campsite and bring your recycling to the appropriate bins.
• Use public transport and our shuttle bus service if possible, or look for a lift through Lift Share.
• If you must use your car, then please consider a Lift Share scheme. Making sure your tyres are properly inflated will mean that your car will run more efficiently and will reduce your carbon emissions. If you are in a queue to enter the site, please turn off your engine rather than idling the car.
• Use only phosphate free shampoo and soap in the showers and remember to take a short shower!
• Turn off taps & showers when finished.
• Live by the 'LEAVE NO TRACE' philosophy – take only photos, leave only footprints.
Anger at festival queue rubbish | |
Local business owners have spoken of their anger after people queuing for Leeds Festival tickets left piles of rubbish strewn on the city streets. Business owners cleaned The Headrow after beer cans, fast food wrappers and even camping chairs were left by the crowd of more than 500 people. Pub manageress Alision Corless claimed fans broke two windows and urinated in an alley next to her premises. The line-up for the August festival includes Sheffield band Arctic Monkeys. Mrs Corless said: "The litter is atrocious. "But it's the hidden damage that's the worst, that no one sees. I've had two windows broken, both of which I have to repair myself, I have had people urinating by my alleyway. "I have had my children woken up by people climbing up my fire escape and I can see them in the queue, I have been and challenged them and they are in the queue waiting for Leeds Festival tickets and all it is for them is amusing. "This is the first year it's been like this" A fan told BBC News: "It is amazing such a small amount of people can make such a mess." Festival fans leave rubbish | |
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