Recycling at the Green Festival

Please use the collection points for Glass, Cans & Plastic at several locations across the site. In past years these have helped achieve an estimated 80% recycling rate.

If you have a passion for recycling or want the #GreenFestival be the greenest #zerowaste #plasticfree festival it can be, the all volunteer organising group needs your help. Please contact volunteers@nottmgreenfest.org.uk

This simple neat idea is at the @earthfirst_uk gathering pic.twitter.com/YU4Hmyt1Dx — Nottingham Green Festival (@NottmGreenFest) August 15, 2019

This year we are pleased to have a number of volunteers with enthusiasm for recycling, supported by Sara from Clean Stream, who runs a recycling zone at the Green Gathering. Read all about this and more at http://www.greengathering.org.uk/deep-recycling/.

You are encouraged to bring additional materials for recycling to the new Recycling Zone by the Bandstand.

You are also welcome to offer your help for a short while!

This more interactive Recycling Zone will collect:

• • Food waste for compost – we hope to provide collection caddies for caterers

    We’re ready to bring the food waste from the #GreenFestival for #compost at #SumacCentre. Our amphibious residents are looking forward to it, as well as all the hungry worms.https://t.co/udrR9RxqTs pic.twitter.com/2AUUwxnYm8

    — Nottingham Green Festival (@NottmGreenFest) September 11, 2019

  • Tetra packs – undone on all corners to lay flat
  • Paper & cardboard
  • Plastic bags & wrap
  • Other plastic containers
  • Crisp wrappers – flat, not scrunched up
  • Biscuit wrappers (Sweet & savory) – flat
  • Peanut / popcorn bags – flat

#GreenFestival caterers hope to share, wash & reuse proper mugs to reduce disposables. We have funded a public water fountain at The Arboretum & have metal water bottles available at the free tea stand. With everyone’s help we can keep the site litter freehttps://t.co/t9EnMvSig9 pic.twitter.com/hAEBZjOMUH

— Nottingham Green Festival (@NottmGreenFest) May 14, 2019

SImple tippy tap to wash hands with minimum trickle of water – upright posts with dowling between – water container with small hole in lid – cord tied to handle of container – pedal hung from cord so one end is raised off ground – foot on pedal pulls cord to tip container pic.twitter.com/Ye5pdRPG5L

— Nottingham Green Festival (@NottmGreenFest) August 17, 2019