Transforming all all Festivals in the Forest City Waste Free will not happen overnight but the Coalition has made progress in many areas. Participating festivals at Victoria Park include: SunFest, Home County Folk Festival and RibFest. Here's how you can help the effort to minimize waste while you enjoy the festivals.

Dishes and Cutlery

Bring Your Own: You are encouraged to bring your own reusable containers, mugs, dishes, and cutlery which will save on disposables products being used.

Rental of Reusables: An alternative to disposables will be offered at the festival whereby you rent a reusable (your deposit will be returned when you return the dishes for washing) This action will also save on disposable products being used.

Compostables: Many vendors will supply your food choice on a compostable container ,which you must then place in the compost bin at the eco-station. This will eliminate a tremendous amount of garbage in the park and create good soil for gardens in the future.

Water

Bottled water is being discouraged this year. Look for the refilling stations and water fountains provided by the city. This source of water will help to eliminate the abundance of single use plastic water bottles and once again cut down on disposable products in the park and the waste generated.
More info on plastic water bottles here

Plastic Bags

Vendors are being asked to not give out plastic shopping bags at the festivals. Therefore you are encouraged to bring a backpack or a reusable cloth bag for your purchases. More info on the London Plastic Bag project here

EcoStations

Look for the signs (insert photo) indicating the locations of the recycling, composting and garbage bins. Follow the instructions at each site for how to sort any items you are throwing away. It is critical that there not be cross contamination of the bins otherwise all will become landfill

How to Get Involved

It will take lots of new volunteers to help ensure that LondonÕs Festivals go green. We encourage you to contact your favourite festival and ask to be part of their green team.

www.sunfest.on.ca
www.homecounty.ca/greenfestival
www.bgclondon.ca/ribfest_contact.html

Or, you can e-mail us and we will be happy to make you part of our Waste Free World volunteer list.