FESTIVAL COMPOSTING, RECYCLING & TRASH PROGRAMS
EcoAction Partners works with festivals and events to reduce landfill waste while utilizing the opportunity to engage attendees and vendors for continuing waste reduction efforts at their homes and businesses.
HOW IT WORKS
EcoAction Partners has worked with many festivals, events and organizations in our region to help them reduce and divert waste. Efforts involve working with event management to ensure sourcing local and organic food vendors, use of compostable and recyclable products, educating festival staff and attendees, training and managing volunteers for Compost, Recycling and Trash (CRT) stations.
participating partners
EcoAction Partners began working with local festivals in 2010 to require 100% composting of all organic waste. Telluride Bluegrass Festival, which brings approximately 15,000 visitors annually from around the world, is now a ‘Zero Waste Event’. Through our partnership, Planet Bluegrass (the event organizer) has become a leader in festival composting and the educational impact has been enormous. The Telluride Jazz Festival and the Telluride Blues and Brews Festival, both produced by SBG Productions, also hire EcoAction Partners to reduce waste at their 3,000 to 9,000 person events. On top of that, in partnership with the Town of Telluride, Ecoaction contributes this waste reducing CRT program for the annual Telluride July 4th Fireman’s picnic, which draws approximately 12,000 people to the region each year.
More Waste resources
We have resources for individuals and businesses to use regarding composting, recycling, and waste here.