Well…better late than never! I was lucky enough to bag myself a ticket to Reading Festival this year and I had an amazing time. But I remembered not to take off my green hat and found out about what Reading was doing this year to become more environmentally friendly. Well most of their information on ‘Green Reading’ can be found here. But once arriving on site and picking up my brochure I read out their festival salvage plan which aims to collect everything from sleeping bags to pots and pans at the end of the weekend, and donate it to various charities. There was also the great idea of reducing waste by putting a 10p deposit on paper cups and 20p on water bottles. This made for a familiar sight of people walking round frantically searching for paper cups and some amusement was to be had by simply tieing a bit of a string to a cup and waiting for a poor lurker to take the bait! I managed to take some photos of various green initiatives going on at the festival.
Green recycling bags handed out to weekend campersOne festival goer collects paper cups for recycling
Friendly helpers reminding people to recycle on campgrounds
Place to recycle cans for beer!
Campers using green bags to recycle their beer cans
Each cup returned is worth 10p and helps reduce wastage
