Celebrating Ten Years and 100 Tons of Recycling!

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 became the “experts” and held seminars, wrote articles for event-industry magazines and spoke at conferences around the country on setting up a recycling program.

Now we are doing more for the overall 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 the impact by recycling glass, composting food scraps and collecting vegetable oil from our food vendors for bio-diesel use.

Carbon Footprint

 Just by attending the Festival, patrons have an impact on the environment.

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.

Ride your bike to the festival to help reduce automobile emissions and receive $2.00 off your admission.

eARTh Team Coordinator: Jill Fletcher