Bonnaroo Sets Record for Recycled Waste
This year’s Bonnaroo music festival racked up more than just thousands of concert-goers. It also accumulated an obscene amount of trash.
However, this year’s festival had sponsors for recycling, resulting in a record amount of recyclable waste.
Workers are still bringing in recyclables by the truckloads after this year's Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tenn. Photo: Bonnaroo.com
Once the music ended and the crowds dispersed, the landscape of Manchester, Tenn. was littered with beer bottles, plastic soda bottles and aluminum cans.
But it wasn’t until the trash was picked up and hauled off that Orange Grove Recycling Center realized just exactly how much waste was at hand.
According to Martin Smith with the Orange Grove Recycling Center, the facility has collected about 45 tons of recyclable waste since Bonnaroo ended on June 14.
However, trucks are still coming to the facility, dropping off 10 to 11 tons a day.
With that amount of waste, the workers have a tough job on their hands. The facility is still collecting the waste and hasn’t began to recycle it yet. The process will begin once the trucks have finished hauling the remainder of Bonnaroo’s leftovers.
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rose Timmer
posted on June 25th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
did they think of having a green event. You leave the area the way you found it and no carbon footprint. What a shame that to eno\joy ourselves we have to leave waste behind.