GREEN LEEDS
Intro
RECYCLE FOR BEER
In the campgrounds if you do your playground duty and bring us filled up bags of recycling, you won’t just be earning brownie points; you’ll be earning a beer for your hard earned work if you take the bag to one of the litter exchange points from 7am – 7pm each day.
RECYCLE FOR MONEY
GAS CANISTERS WIN SEASON PASSES
Win 2008 Season Passes by Handing in Gas Canisters
Take your empty gas canisters or aerosols to the zone managers’ caravans, fill in a raffle ticket and go into the draw each day to win passes to Glastonbury Festival and Leeds Festival in 2008! Winners will be announced on the main stage each evening. We are also doing a prize for anything handed in on the Bank Holiday Monday and so remember this whilst you are packing up. It’s that simple.
Cows Live Here Too!
GIVE ME SHELTER
Don't Dump it, Don't Destroy it; Hand It In!
Every year, thousands of tents, sleeping bags and camping mats are left behind after festivals, along with things like wellies, radios, and clothes.
Together with Festival Republic, Global Hand and other local charitable groups we are running the Give Me Shelter campaign to encourage festival-goers to give away their tents and other items that would otherwise left behind or trashed and end up in landfill. These will be redirected to meet needs internationally.
Give Me Shelter asks you to donate your tents and other camping gear if you have no further need for them.
Step 1 - Decide to donate – don’t trash your tent or camping gear
Step 2 - Pack it Up
Step 3 - Take it to a zone manager caravan
Step 4 - Feel Good and do good
More information on Global Hand and Give Me Shelter here.
IMPORTANT: NEWS ABOUT YOUR TENT!We need you to take down your tents and hand them in. It is simply impossible for us to take down so many tents. We will, however, check all tents handed in. If they are good quality, they will be distributed to people in need, locally and in many places on the planet.
Tents left standing will go to landfill and damage our environment:
So, don’t leave your tent. Pack it. Hand it in. Change lives!
ECO-TRAVEL
LEEDS ECO-TRANSPORTER - REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT
Be a Leeds Eco Transporter – fill every seat in your car, join the Lift Share program, or catch a bus or train…all great ways to reduce your carbon footprint when coming to the festival.
Lift Share - If you need a lift to the festival or have a spare seat in your car and want to offer a lift, log onto Liftshare to hook up with others. Liftshare makes travelling to the festival cheaper, reduces the amount of congestion on the roads helping everyone arriving quickly, and of course you’re being kind to our environment by reducing green house gas emissions and your carbon footprint.
If you are travelling by car and have a spare seat, please visit the Carling Weekend: Leeds 2007 Car Share Scheme www.liftshare.org operated by Liftshare to offer a lift to others and make new festival friends before you even get there.
Coach Travel - The official travel partner, National Express is running direct services to Leeds Festival 2007 from all the major cities and town across the UK. The services take you right to the festival site. For travel bookings and more information go to www.nationalexpress.com/leedsfestival
Train Travel - Great North Eastern Railway, Virgin Trains and First TransPennine Express run trains to Leeds City Station. There are no special services but the local networks are aware of the festival.
Visit www.thetrainline.com or www.tpexpress.co.uk. There may be engineering works affecting services so please call 08457 484950 before travelling.
ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND SHOWERS & TOILETS
Environmentally Sound Shower Gel
To help minimize the environmental impact on the land at where the festival is held, Ecover Shower Gel is available for all festival goers to use in the onsite showers. Ecover Shower Gel is made from plant and mineral based ingredients and is biodegradable, leaving no harmful residues on the land or in the water after use. Please use the Shower Gel provided if you have not brought your own ecological version.
Eco Friendly Toilet Paper
Toilet paper available on site, you will be happy to know, comes from recycled paper. It has had a previous life before becoming toilet paper, so no trees were cut down just to get flushed.
HANDY TIPS FOR GREEN CAMPERS
• Say no to plastic bags if offered by market vendors. Bring your own re-useable cloth bag.
• Minimize the amount of over-packaged goods and individual portion packs you bring to the festival.
• Buy fair-trade and organic food, drinks and products at stalls if possible.
• Don't drop your litter. Use the litter points and bins all over the site!
• Please please please don’t drop your cigarette butts. Every butt you throw on the ground has to be picked up by someone else. Use an empty film canister to collect your butts.
• Litter pickers are lovely…smile at them and please help them out by not throwing rubbish on the ground!
• Separate your waste at your campsite and use the bags we supply to bring your recycling and compostables to the appropriate bins.
• Use public transport and our shuttle bus service if possible, or look for a lift through Lift Share.
• If you must use your car, then please consider a Lift Share scheme. Making sure your tyres are properly inflated will mean that your car will run more efficiently and will reduce your carbon emissions. If you are in a queue to enter the site, please turn off your engine rather than idling the car.
• Use only phosphate free shampoo and soap in the showers and remember to take a short shower!
• Turn off taps & showers when finished.
• Live by the 'LEAVE NO TRACE' philosophy – take only photos, leave only footprints.
