14 DAY TRIAL // This year's Shambala Festival in the United Kingdom is to be celebrated between August 21 and 24, in Northamptonshire. As entertaining as this festival might be, odds are environmentalists are more interested in learning about how this gathering also happens to be the greenest of its kind in the country.
Thus, Click Green informs that the folks behind the upcoming Shambala Festival have taken it to themselves to make sure that the gathering will not send any waste to landfill.
This is to be achieved by reusing several resources on site, and by collecting remaining materials and having them composted, recycled, or used to produce energy, the same source details.
In order to minimize the use of resources, Shambala Festival's organizers have asked both participants and staff to bring reusable bottles. Besides, filtered water is to be provided free of charge on site, and the bars are to be stocked with plastic cups that can be washed and used several times.
This is not the first time when reusable plastic cups are to be offered at the Shambala Festival. On the contrary, this measure was also implemented last year and, as a result, the gathering managed to keep some 70,000 cups from ending up in landfill.
Since one can never be green enough, the people behind this gathering have also taken steps towards ensuring that, this year, the Shambala Festival will be powered by renewables, i.e. sun, wind, waste vegetable oil, and pedal power, alone.
The event's organizers are also in the business of promoting sustainable traveling options, meaning that they offer subsidized coaches from key cities and hold guided cycle rides to the site of the gathering.
As far as the food consumed as this festival is concerned, organizers stress that caterers and traders are required to only serve organic, maybe even local products. Besides, the meat, eggs, and fish that might tempt participants must come from ethical sources.
“Shambala is driven by its ethics and our festivalgoers really care about people and about the planet. Together we are making pioneering changes to the way Shambala operates, and keeping important issues alive, debated and explored,” Chris Johnson, one of the people behind this event, said in a statement.
Furthermore, “This year we're going even further to challenge preconceptions about what's possible by combining 100% renewable power with the complete elimination of plastics and zero waste to landfill. Everything we do has an impact, we want Shambala’s impact to be overwhelmingly positive.”