Calling all recycling champions – Your Festival needs YOU!
Published on: May 27, 2011
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This summer Every Can Counts will be working at some of the UK’s leading music festivals. We have teamed up with social enterprise Bright Green, who are specialists in recycling and materials salvage at music festivals and other events. Together we’ll be running promotions and encouraging recycling at venues around the UK; from the small and intimate to boutique and rock, including Download, Big Chill and Reading . But to do all this we need your help!
Together we want to make recycling and composting an enjoyable experience and reduce the environmental impact of the festival; by encouraging people to put the right thing in the right bin, and running fun promotions and incentive schemes. This wouldn’t be possible without the great help of volunteers, the Green Messengers, who work to promote the re-use, recycle & compost message.
Bright Green’s festival section, Festival Green, is looking for volunteers to join the Green Messenger team. Volunteering is hard work – but lots of fun! You should be prepared to work between 16 and 24 hours over the course of the festival, in exchange for a weekend crew pass, staff camping and showers, and access to crew catering.
If you would like to volunteer at a festival this year, check out the Festival Green website, where you will find more information, as well as a list of festivals and application forms. You can also email volunteer@festivalgreen.org or join the new Facebook page for further information and updates.
Our work at festivals is part of Every Can Counts’ wider aim of increasing drinks can recycling rates ‘on the go’ across the UK. The sheer volume of cans consumed at festivals presents an ideal opportunity to communicate the importance of recycling to a huge audience and this is why we need your help to make every can count this summer! Last year over 10 tonnes of cans were saved from landfill by our activities at Festivals, working together – and with your help – we know we can make more cans count in 2011.
Festival Green are also teaming up with the Philippine Community Fund to collect ring pulls from drink cans. They convert these into stylish products (https://store.p-c-f.org/) which they sell to generate revenue for their education, health, nutrition and social intervention programmes which help impoverished communities in and around Manila.
