Here's the latest press release that is confusing me.
T IN THE PARK RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS GREENER FESTIVAL AWARD FOR THE SIXTH YEAR RUNNING
Festival organisers DF Concerts and founding partner Tennent’s Lager are delighted to announce that T in the Park is the recipient of the prestigious A Greener Festival Award for the sixth year running, in recognition of its sustained efforts to reduce the environmental impact of the festival.
T in the Park is the second largest festival to receive the award this year, after Glastonbury. The list of winners have been hailed as some of the greenest festivals in the world by A Greener Festival’s Executive Committee, after the Committee analysed the environmental policies, waste management plans and CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions of each festival. Each festival had to sign up to a strict check list of environmental good practice, and was inspected by one or more environmental auditors.
Festival organisers DF Concerts and founding partner Tennent’s Lager are delighted to announce that T in the Park is the recipient of the prestigious A Greener Festival Award for the sixth year running, in recognition of its sustained efforts to reduce the environmental impact of the festival.
T in the Park is the second largest festival to receive the award this year, after Glastonbury. The list of winners have been hailed as some of the greenest festivals in the world by A Greener Festival’s Executive Committee, after the Committee analysed the environmental policies, waste management plans and CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions of each festival. Each festival had to sign up to a strict check list of environmental good practice, and was inspected by one or more environmental auditors.
I went to T in the Park this year and spent the time making smart-ass remarks about The Society of the Spectacle and wishing My Bloody Valentine hadn't looked so old. Given the amount of mess being left behind by the crowd, I am impressed that the organisers had strategies in place not to leave the site looking like a bomb crater, let alone win a green award.
The efforts of T in the Park organisers to make the festival more environmentally friendly include various fan-focused initiatives. These include Citizen T - an audience manifesto which encourages binning litter, recycling and tent re-use. Fans are encouraged to take their cups to special cup recycling points situated around the festival site and receive a 10p deposit in return, and festival-goers are also encouraged to use public transport to travel to the festival to help reduce the event’s carbon emissions.
The efforts of T in the Park organisers to make the festival more environmentally friendly include various fan-focused initiatives. These include Citizen T - an audience manifesto which encourages binning litter, recycling and tent re-use. Fans are encouraged to take their cups to special cup recycling points situated around the festival site and receive a 10p deposit in return, and festival-goers are also encouraged to use public transport to travel to the festival to help reduce the event’s carbon emissions.
I am suspicious of any organisation that uses the word 'citizen' (except a certain theatre on Glasgow's Southside), because it makes me think of Big Brother and totalitarian states enforcing public jollity. That said, when I started this blog, I intended to mock the whole thing as a form of Greenwash, but this kind of initiative is the sort of thing I vaguely approve.
Then again, it is a bit sad that people need to be told not to leave stuff all over the countryside in the first place. And a few facts and figures would be good: what is the actual carbon footprint of the festival, does the reduction mean anything in real times and will people like me ever be convinced that T in the Park could make a difference?
Geoff Ellis, Festival Director, said: “We’re incredibly proud to receive the prestigious A Greener Festival Award for the sixth consecutive year, and are really delighted to be recognised as one of the greenest festivals in the world. We’re committed to reducing our environmental impact and carbon footprint, and also involve our fans in the process - initiatives such as Citizen T are all about inspiring a culture change within our audience and encouraging them to aid us with our efforts through recycling and tent re-use. We’re incredibly grateful to them for their continued support.”
It's all good, I guess. There are a few issues surrounding aesthetic pollution still - the big festival encourages a certain sort of music to become dominant, and might encourage bands to tailor their sets/tunes to work in vast spaces rather than consider their music as self-expression.
Geoff Ellis, Festival Director, said: “We’re incredibly proud to receive the prestigious A Greener Festival Award for the sixth consecutive year, and are really delighted to be recognised as one of the greenest festivals in the world. We’re committed to reducing our environmental impact and carbon footprint, and also involve our fans in the process - initiatives such as Citizen T are all about inspiring a culture change within our audience and encouraging them to aid us with our efforts through recycling and tent re-use. We’re incredibly grateful to them for their continued support.”
It's all good, I guess. There are a few issues surrounding aesthetic pollution still - the big festival encourages a certain sort of music to become dominant, and might encourage bands to tailor their sets/tunes to work in vast spaces rather than consider their music as self-expression.
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