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'For the past eight years, 18-year-old Miranda McLean and her family have been
making the four-hour drive from Melbourne to Port Fairy for the town's annual
folk festival.
This year, Ms McLean volunteered to be a "bin fairy".
She helped to separate rubbish and chatted to punters about why that was
important.
"[It] doesn't seem like a big thing," she said.
"But when you have hundreds and hundreds of people coming through a festival,
bins getting contaminated, plastic being thrown in the compost — as soon as you
have that contamination, it all goes to waste."
More than 500 music festivals are held in Australia each year and, according to
Green Music Australia, about two kilograms of waste per person is created per
day at the events.
For that reason volunteers are essential to help manage waste and keep festival
spaces clean and usable.
But estimates show up to eighty per cent of festival waste comes from campsites
and can include abandoned tents, marquees and couches.
This has led to some festival-goers tackling the problem of campsite waste in
creative ways.'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
