eARTh Team & Bike Valet
The eARTh Team Commitment to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
Ride your bike to the festival and receive $3.00 off admission when you park in the Bike Lot!
By offering positive options that make our world safer and cleaner, we can promote a better quality of life for everyone. That’s why the Utah Arts Festival eARTh Team constantly strives to continue to reduce its impact on the environment. The Festival recycles plastic bottles and cups, aluminum cans, cardboard, glass, food scraps, and vegetable oil, which is turned into bio-diesel. The eARTh Team has also eliminated the use of plastic bags in garbage and recycling containers, and has taken creative new measues to reduce contamination, which leads to a a greater positive impact on our environment!
Free Bike Valet!
Reducing air emmissions is essential to making our valley more livable for all of us. That's why the Festival provides a FREE Bike Valet to encourage emissions-free transportation to the Festival. In 2008, 985 participants chose to ride their bikes - how many of you will in 2009?
Plus: Don't miss the new VIB Entrance - an exclusive, seperate entrance for bike-riding patrons only!
Location: 4th South near City County Building (between State Street and 2nd East) west of the main entrance.
As if helping the environment and having an exclusive entrance to the festival weren't enough incentive, you'll also get $3.00 the cost of admission!
Sponsors
The eARTh Team would like to thank all our sponsors, including:
eARTh Team History
The Utah Arts Festival environmental program began 10 years ago with a recycling program and a valet bike lot. As one of the few events in the country with a recycling program, we quickly became experts and held seminars, wrote articles for event-industry magazines, and spoke at conferences around the country on how to set up recycling programs for events.
Reduce Your Carbon Imprint
Now we are doing even more for the environment. Our goal is to reduce the overall impact the Festival has on the environment. Along with recycling plastics and cardboard, we’ll try to further reduce our impact by recycling glass, composting food scraps, and collecting vegetable oil from our food vendors for bio-diesel use.
Facts
The average American generates about 15,000 pounds of carbon dioxide every year from personal transportation, home energy use, and from the energy used to produce all of the products and services we consume.
Calculate your personal impact at the eARTh Team Booth to see how much CO2 you produce each year and learn how you can reduce your carbon emissions.
eARTh Team Coordinator: Jill Fletcher
Crew Leader: Margaret Grochocki
Assistant Environmental Coordinator: Mitch Davis
Bike Lot Assistant: Krista Bowers
