Environmental issues are pretty high on everyone's agenda at the moment, no more so than at the Festival. Therefore we're pleased to say that we are currently finalising a system of reusing plastic pint glasses at our bars, which is going to have a major impact on the tidiness of the site and reduce the number of glasses that we waste.
Because we want to maintain a traditionally pulled pint, we have to have rigid plastic glasses and not cardboard ones. In previous year's we've got through around 40,000 plastic glasses, many of which have ended up littering the site and can be really hard to pick up once they become shattered and embedded in the ground.
This year we've decided to introduce a mandatory deposit on all plastic pint glasses, which will drastically reduce the number that we need. We're aware that some customers might be concerned about the initial deposit cost, but if they want to get this money back they can when they leave the festival. We're also going to get the glasses printed up, so that people might want to keep them as souvenirs and re-use when they get home as well as at the festival (rather like the glass tankards which we already produce).
If customers are concerned that their glasses have become dirty, there will be machines to give them a quick wash, though we hope people are cooperative and don't demand a clean glass everytime they order a pint, as that would rather defeat the objective! All in all we think it going to be a major improvement and we really hope that our customers support us. We're even going to ensure the same age restrictions from when getting your deposit back as when buying a pint, so that kid's don't go around nicking unattended glass that they find on the floor, which we know has happened at some other events.
Cheers!
Eddie Barcan
Folk Festival Manager
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7 comments:
Sounds like a fine idea to me. No more glass sculptures now though!
great idea, fed up with "mountain builders" which was great fun until someone knocked them over and trampled them all over the place
Great, sounds like you've covered all the bases. Those shattered plastic mugs were really nasty to stand on if you were in bare feet!
Excellent idea, works well at Green Man so should be successful here
Isn't there some sort of hygene regulation preventing the re-use of glasses which has led to pubs issuing a fresh glass with each round thereby preventing the pump nozzle coming into contact with the dregs of the last pint (saliva etc) as the glass fills and passing it into the next glass?
Tony,
Thanks for your comment and for raising the issue.
We have checked previously with Environmental Health and they have approved our refill system. Bar pumps will not be dipped into glasses or make contact with glass rims.
Best wishes...
system worked well at latitude festival last weekend. though i did see kids carrying 10 or so round the site, youe have that covered though. good idea, looking foreward to this years fest.
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