Ribfest Goes Green Announcing Canada’s Largest Ribfest 100% Green Program! Environmental concerns need to be addressed and Canada’s Largest Ribfest wants to participate by launching a 100% Green program. The Rotary Club of Burlington Lakeshore members’ goal was to make Canada’s Largest Ribfest 100% recyclable and / or biodegradable wastes. To accomplish this, it has required a variety of changes to our systems and requirements of vendors, as well as the support of service providers. The Ribfest planning committee had to inform all of our vendors, including the Rib Teams ("The Ribbers") and Food Vendors, that any consumables they use must be biodegradable or recyclable. In order to accomplish this goal, we had to complete research of what was available in the marketplace for food services. In addition to the consumable regulation, a confirmation from the local recycling facilities were able to process the material. For example, not all plastics are currently recycled, and similarly not all biodegradable are accepted by the current facilities. The products chosen, such as containers and utencils, had to be of a quality that they could do the job in an acceptable manner. ’Fun GREEN Facts’: We identified the following products that would meet our requirements - all are Biodegradable!
Once we have controlled the input, we then have to deal with the input. Canada’s Largest Ribfest will be active in doing this by providing green (biodegradable) and blue (recyclable) containers for the public to use, as well as having several stations where people can take waste to be sorted. Education will be a large part of our plan. We understand that we have a role to help educate the public that the biodegradable container can take the containers with the utensils, along with food leftovers, and in addition will accept the corn starch cups - despite the fact that they look like plastic. As we expect the natural tendency will be for people to put the cups in the recycling, so our recycling staff and volunteers will be sorting the blue containers to make sure they hold only recycleables. We will educate through the website, digital newsletters, signage at the park during the festival, and with the help of our media partners to assist in launching our program. For more information about our program or for a media / public relations please complete the online form below. Watch for more information to be posted online soon. Congratulations Burlington! |
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