Going Green at Blue Ridge Barbecue & Music Festival - Everyone Doing Their Part!
Over the last four years, the Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival has made a concerted effort toward “Going Green” and reducing its environmental footprint. Last year, through reducing waste overall, salvaging compost-appropriate materials and recycling, the Festival achieved an 80 percent reduction in waste from 2006 levels.
Committment to the environment
That score only applied to the festival guests—not the competition cookers in Hog Heaven.
Festival Chairman Dale Musselwhite said, “We are so proud—of our Going Green team and of all our guests, vendors and volunteers who have taken on the challenge that was set before us back in 2006.”
The big effort in 2010, according to the Chairman, will be getting the cook teams in Hog Heaven more involved with the effort. “A number of them have participated, but our goal is to get as close to 100 percent cooperation as possible. The food waste they generate is heavy and would be an especially big environmental boost if we could that into the compost heap instead of in the landfill."
Read more about the Barbecue Festival's Going Green initiative.
Going Green Questions
Got questions about the Festival's Going Green initiative? Contact the BBQ & Music Festival's Going Green Chair
Waste Reduction
2006: 20% waste reduction2007: 45% waste reduction
2008: 65% waste reduction
*2008 Miscellaneous: liquids, ice bags, bottle caps, scrap aluminum, fans, pickles! = 1,300 lbs
2009: 80% waste reduction
