South West waste management company renews ties with local festival.
Bristol-based Grundon will partner with Valley Fest, which is expecting 12,000 people on site in Chew Magna from August 3 to 6. The waste experts will manage the festival's waste streams over the course of the weekend.
Grundon will support the food and music festival on a "major effort" to increase recycling levels, as part of its ongoing drive for "optimum sustainability". This will be second time that Grundon has provided services to Valley Fest.
Features of Grundon’s waste management solution this year will include banks of recycling bins in public areas to encourage festival-goers to separate their food waste. Valley Fest is urging its food suppliers provide compostable bagasse containers. Bagasse is the fibrous cane pulp which is a by-product of the sugar making process and can be recycled alongside food waste.
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Daniel Peacey, regional sales manager for Grundon in Bristol, said: “We are pleased to be working with Valley Fest again after our successful first year supporting the event. Festivals are high-pressured environments needing experience and flexibility, operations at unconventional hours and sometimes a willingness to go the extra mile.
“The events industry operates on often very tight financial margins, so it’s important to get the solution right with a balance between the opposing risks of spending too much, or too little. Our depot in Bristol is perfectly placed to provide a personalised service to the many festivals we enjoy in the South West, as well as the ability to deploy additional resources at short notice.
“So as a local supplier we are happy to work with Valley Fest again and are looking forward to another successful year working with their team.”
Valley Fest was first set up in 2014 and has run every year since, except 2020. It takes place on an organic farm by the side of Chew Valley Lake owned by festival founder Luke Hasell.
Harad Smith, festival manager at Valley Fest, said: “What people may not realise is the work which goes into these events before and after the festival, as well as during it. As such we’re delighted to have found a local partner who can support our waste management requirements.”
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