Festival makes effort to ‘go green’: US
The Indio International Tamale Festival is set to produce more than five tons of waste with an anticipated 125,000 people attending.
However, with the festival’s significant effort to “go green” none of that garbage will go to a landfill.
“This is our biggest event in the city and we have the most exposure to make people aware of this issue,” said Robert Edwards, Environmental Programs coordinator.
The city of Indio worked with G-Rock, a Bay Area-based environmental consulting company, to develop an EcoCenter near the Indio Senior Center to showcase the festival’s green efforts.
The hundreds of corn husks and paper trays from the festival will go to an 80-acre composting facility called California Biomass based in Thermal, said Dylan Bigby, G-Rock green team coordinator.
The organic garbage will decompose into mulch, a nutrient-rich soil fertilizer for plants, Bigby said.
Local Boy Scouts also travel around the festival grounds and gather bottles and cans for recycling, Bigby said. G-Rock also sold green water bottles that are biodegradable.
At the EcoCenter, on Saturday, G-Rock gave away reusable bags made out of recycled material.
Mary Baughn received a large blue bag. The Yucca Valley resident had seen many people carrying the bags all over the festival ground and wanted one of her own.
“I don’t think we need to put more into our landfill, so cutting down on the trash is a good thing,” she said.
Category: Eco Events, Festival News, International Events
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