Bonnaroo crowds (and trash) arrive

Look out!

Posted by Sarah van Schagen at 10:12 AM on 15 Jun 2007

Read more about: Bonnaroo | music | green living | waste | recycling

The masses started arriving yesterday. Gates opened at noon, and 'Roo-goers were ready. At left is the "before" shot -- the open grassy field (once home to cows and cow pies) that will soon be just a field of dirt covered in dirt-covered people and dirt-covered trash.

Unless Clean Vibes has something to do with it, that is. They're the expert trash-picker-uppers I mentioned last year. And if what I saw yesterday is any indication, they're back in full force.

Trash cans are covered with recycling messages, and "green info" sites have popped up all over the (super massive) Bonnaroo grounds. I even saw a large truck covered with a sign saying "Recycling Is Sexy." Yeah, it is. (There was a stripper on the Solar Stage to prove it!)

More "sexy" news to come.

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green roo

wow. clean vibes is doing some awesome stuff. really like their recommendations to achieve the "smallest Bonnaroo Footprint possible" because thats what the goal would seem to be...

a few of my favorites:

Carpool. The less stuff you stack, the more people you can pack!

Think reusable before you buy disposable!

Smokers - bring an ashtray!(my pet peeve)

will be interesting to see how they improve upon last years numbers and wonder what is going to the landfill instead of being recycled?

cheers,
grm

green is the new black...

by green room media at 10:58 AM on 15 Jun 2007

greening bonnaroo

Sarah, great you're there to combat the waste and trash. we're set up right down the way at Planet Roo - fighting Corporate Low-Down Depot Mart, who insist on selling mulch made from the Gulf Coast's best natural defenses from flooding and hurricanes - our cypress swamps. Check out the home page for a fun flash animation we just launched. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll click (we hope)

Gulf Restoration Network United for a Healthy Gulf

by GulfAaron at 12:03 PM on 15 Jun 2007

cheers/jeers

Kudos to clean vibes!

However, let's hope that the stripper on stage was not, in fact, yet another case of the growing-in-popularity tactic employing and commodifying women's bodies as a resource to end environmental exploitation (and almost exclusively from heteronormative perspectives at that).

jessica k. w.

by etoilebleu at 12:41 PM on 15 Jun 2007

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