Making the festival green............

[Rich_chownsie]

What in gods name does that mean? Planting more trees or having Grotbags as a headliner?!!!

SPEND SPEND SPEND the money on another band - get someone decent like the PD's or something!!

[Andrew_iow]

I think they should paint it all blue!!!!

[chownsy]

Making a festival that size 'Green' would be impossible!

No point anyway....no one gives a shit about the environment!!!!!

[Lauz_Abbott]

they did at EOTR....i liked the fact they were green and cared about it all

[russellelly]

they did at EOTR....i liked the fact they were green and cared about it all

[Lauz_Abbott]

at end of the road they had seperate bins for food waste, cans, paper etc and it was really good and everything was kept so clean

[Rich_chownsie]

at end of the road they had seperate bins for food waste, cans, paper etc and it was really good and everything was kept so clean

[russellelly]

Lauz, seriously.......... what was the capacity at the EOTR?

It works there; would never work at a large festival - another band is the best option by far.

[Rich_chownsie]

So...we want to make the whole planet 'greener', but we can't make a weekend gathering of 70k or so greener? That's a tad unambitious.

[chownsy]

You provide bins, clearly marked, and ask people to put their rubbish in them, and you also ask them to place their fag ends in appropriate waste containers......

.....that of course, requires that people engage their brains. Not something the Brits are very good at.

[greenfairy43]

As well as appropriately marked bins, they should do things like at Glastonbury where all food outlets have to provide recyclable/biodegradable plates & cutlery.

Recycling is pretty well established in most people's daily routines nowadays, so plenty of opportunities to dipose of watse in different bins should mean most folk play along.

It's hardly rocket science!

[chownsy]

It's hardly rocket science!

[greenfairy43]

I would have thought that people ( especially the youngsters) are more recyling aware than ever......

[chownsy]

I would have thought that people ( especially the youngsters) are more recyling aware than ever......

[Kyelo]

I would have thought that people ( especially the youngsters) are more recyling aware than ever......

[russellelly]

You provide bins, clearly marked, and ask people to put their rubbish in them, and you also ask them to place their fag ends in appropriate waste containers......

.....that of course, requires that people engage their brains. Not something the Brits are very good at.

[LeBenji]

Last year at Reading they took 10p off your drink if you brought the cup back, so you had groups of people collecting literally hundreds of cups, to get some money back, and possibly collecting enough to pay for your ticket into the festival!

Not a bad incentive to get people to clear up I reckon! Not that I picked up one cup, I'm lazy like that though!

www.kellyandbenji.blogspot.com <--- visit and sign up, you'll only get an email when we post a new blog entry (not too often, yet marvellously comical!)

[Lauz_Abbott]

i like that idea of getting money back....would really get people thinking about recycling

[chervanna]

Well I was hoping to do my bit for the enviroment and save my shoe leather by cycling but no ones told me where to park me bike! any builders going? hehehe

[chownsy]

Last year at Reading they took 10p off your drink if you brought the cup back

[manda]

They did that at V as well. I can't see any reason at all why IOW wouldn't adopt the same method as it appeared to work well at both Reading and V both festivals being bigger than IOW- I certainly saw very few beer cups lying around, and there was hours worth of entertainment in watching people fighting over them!!

[chownsy]

IOW bar's take tokens.........

You'd have to rock up at the token exchange, then having queued for 4hrs, with £3 worth of paper pint pots, get yourself one token!

Not for me thanks! I'll make the effort to move my bones toward a bin when Im empty

[chownsy]

If you need a place to stay a great Isle of Wight Bed and Breakfast is the *** Bed and Breakfast in ***

Edited March 21, 2008 by eFestivals
spam removal

[Andrew_iow]

with great neighbours aswell chownsy and nice views to boot aswell.

[manda]

IOW bar's take tokens.........

You'd have to rock up at the token exchange, then having queued for 4hrs, with £3 worth of paper pint pots, get yourself one token!

Not for me thanks! I'll make the effort to move my bones toward a bin when Im empty