Well we’re back from the Green Man with our RPU Large Events Unit – what a successful week!
By the end of the festival clean-up, we’d processed 4 tonnes of cardboard, 3/4 tonne of drinks cans, and over 30 wheelie bins full of glass!
What’s the benefit?
Crushed glass takes up around 20% of the volume of intact bottles. We saw 2.5 skiploads of glass bottles crushed down into less than half a skipload of cullet – a completely reusable material.
We processed 36m3 of aluminium drinks cans, which equates to 30 pallets, or a full artic lorry load. These were crushed and stacked into just 3m3 of materials to take up just 2.5 pallets.
4 Tonnes of cardboard – that’s over 190m3 of loose cardboard – into just 34 tied, stackable bales taking up a fraction of the space.
In layman’s terms, we turned:
3 skips of glass into 1
1x artic lorry load of cans into 1x 3.5T van
3x artic lorry loads of cardboard into 1x 18T van.
In total, that means that the recyclable waste leaving the Green Man Festival used less than a third of the CO2 compared to taking the waste loose and uncompacted!