More sustainable communities lead to a thriving planet. By offering positive options that make our world safer and cleaner, we can promote a better life for everyone. That’s why Green Festival™, a joint project of Global Exchange and Co-op America, is striving to become a zero-waste event.
Seven-Star, Inc., America’s green event experts, organizes and manages the landfill diversion, product conversion and carbon offsetting for each Green Festival™. With the help of dedicated Green Festival™ volunteers and staff, Seven-Star, Inc. is able to divert record-breaking amounts of waste from ending up in landfills. Plus, Green Festival™ works with vendors and event suppliers that offer green alternatives.
Green Festival™ Efforts:
E-waste receptacles are available to participants’ for recycling and reuse of their electronic devices.
Everything that can be recycled at the event is recycled. Enthusiastic volunteers and staff are available to assist attendees in this process.
Event signs have been designed with reuse in mind. Each piece is made from environmentally friendly materials.
All Green Festival™ collateral is made with recycled materials.
Green Festival offsets 100% of its electricity emissions with clean, renewable energy.
Green Festival™ provides incentives for participants using greener modes of transportation.
Green Festival™ is a plastic water bottle-free event! Large water jugs are provided at the event for all participants.
Every plate, fork spoon, knife, cup, bowl, napkin, coffee stirrer and sample cup is 100% biodegradable and will be collected with all food scraps to be composted.
At Green Festival™, there is no such thing as a trash can. You’ll only find a Resource Recovery Station, a fully loaded recycling center complete with collection bins for all types of recyclable items, organic and compostable items, and the little waste that cannot be recycled. Each station features a trained volunteer who assists attendees and helps to ensure that there is no contamination between the bins.
At Green Festival™, you won’t find the usual plastic and Styrofoam service items. Every exhibitor and vendor is mandated to use only biodegradable service items, or Bio-ware, for all food service and sampling. What this means is that every cup, plate, fork, spoon, bowl, napkin, toothpick, sample cup, and food item is 100% compostable. And we guarantee that every last item is composted and returned to the Earth as a safe and fertile soil amendment.
Large events consume large amount of energy to accommodate event needs, such as food and beverage vending, lighting, audio visual equipment, venue heating and cooling, transportation of goods and people and so on. At Green Festival™, we examine our energy needs and ask the question, “How can we minimize our energy consumption or make it as clean as possible?” This often yields some unique and very effective solutions.
