But Yang was disappointed to see “disturbing amounts of plastic water bottles and cups” littering the grounds at Parc Jean-Drapeau during last weekend’s festival.
When organizers learned that an extreme heat warning would be in effect last weekend, it was decided that the security team would undertake a mass distribution of bottles of water, he said.
At the end of the day, we will do what we have to to keep people safe.” It was Yang’s third year at Osheaga, “and I have never stepped on water bottles every two steps the way I did this year,” she said in an interview Tuesday.
Vanden Brande acknowledged the lineups, but said “a lot had to do with the weather.” As in prior years, food vendors at Osheaga were required to use compostable containers, cups and utensils, and some offered eco-cups for which concertgoers paid a refundable deposit, he said.
As in the past, waste sorting centres to encourage recycling and composting were in place, and “it is definitely something we want to increase.” Although festival co-ordinators were “extremely pleased” with eco-conscious efforts to date, “we always want to get better,” Vanden Brande said.
We do a lot with garbage and recycling bins and composting, but I do think it is an effort for everyone to make — concertgoers, concessions, everyone.” “Being eco-responsible means taking concrete action, year after year, to minimize the ecological footprint of our events,” Evenko said in a statement in July, when the ban on straws was announced.
Eight recycling bins were filled, and five compost bins.
“We don’t create a lot of garbage,” founder Ziv Przytyk said of the festival, which takes place on his organic family farm.
Przytyk and his brother started to sort the garbage back in the third or fourth year of the festival.
Plastic water bottles.