Event Summary

Sustainable Sandhills kept the recycling issue front and center at the 2007 Dogwood Festival.  25 recycling stations were manned to capture 100% of aluminum and plastic beverage containers.  An exhibit booth educated festival-goers about recycling and other sustainability issues.  Thanks to all of our volunteers--we could not have done it without you!

Special Event Recycling

Dogwood Festival Recycling

One of the largest festivals we will attend this year is the Dogwood Festival, April 28-29, 2007 in Fayetteville. Our goal is to promote a 100% litter free and recycled Dogwood Festival. We will be using our five portable recycling bins and borrowing 20 from the City of Fayetteville for a combined 25 portable recycling bins. We plan to organize roughly 100 volunteers to help us with this task. The idea is to have one volunteer stationed at each recycling bin throughout the day on Saturday for three-hour shifts. These volunteers will encourage festival-goers to recycle used aluminum and/or plastic bottles while educating them about recycling and the recycling opportunities in the area.

International Folk Festival Recycling, 2006:

Sustainable Sandhills partnered with the City of Fayetteville and Fayetteville Beautiful at the International Folk Festival to promote recycling. Staff and volunteers spent the day encouraging festival-goers to utilize recycling bins and handed out information about recycling programs in the City of Fayetteville and Cumberland County. More than 300 pounds of drink containers (plastic and aluminum) were collected, and organizers of the IFF declared the event to be the cleanest in its 25+ year history.