All over the world, festivals, both large and small, are growing conscious of their ecological footprint. This year Epizode also will focus on green credentials with the new eco-initiatives. By promoting environmental awareness we are doing as much as we can to minimize the harmful impact and to strengthen the idea of a community coming together to celebrate the environment while listening to good music. This year’s event will take place on a larger site with chill-out and daily activities zones, a food court and market place. A significant effort is also put into the creation of a comfortable leisure area with yoga and sports, group meditation classes and healing sound sessions that will bring the mind and the body to balance.

During the whole production and festival period, we claim to educate the team, local partners and the audience about the responsibility that one can take to prevent the collapse of the eco-system. Epizode will control what comes onsite and into our ecosystem, we choose to take action to limit plastic waste and positively influence the attitudes and behavior of our beloved guests.

This check-list contains essential points of improvement they have achieved so far:

                  Plastic water bottles are no longer presented.
They have announced their collaboration with beWater who will be supplying them with water in aluminum cans! beWater has committed to fully managing the entire life cycle of their cans, from distribution to collection & recycling to supporting crucial local causes.

 

Plastic straws are replaced with eco-friendly wild grass straws from their local partner Zero Waste Saigon.

 

Tableware we use in foodcourt is now made from recycled sugarcane and decomposes in 45 days.

                       It will be provided by Ho Chi Minh based company Green Domino Eco Solutions.

 

Festival launches cup sharing system in the bars.

You get the cup with a deposit of 1 token when buying your first drink at any bar and keep it with you. Cups can be exchanged for clean ones with the purchase of a new drink. Just ask the bar staff. Used cups can be returned and the deposit will be refunded.

 

Separated waste collection approach will be represented on the Epizode festival.

They will provide three types of trash bins: for plastic, aluminum and mixed garbage with a transparent system of its further recycling.

They aim to keep the territory clean from any waste and cigarette butts are the most intrusive ones – merchandise shop offers affordable pocket ashtrays to be carried out with you. Apart from pocket ashtrays our merchandise shop also offers a lot of eco-friendly items – among them are reusable water bottles, bamboo straws, bamboo cups and many more.

The educational focus is absolutely a must when you aim to reach out for contemporary minds: we deliver the ecological agenda through expert voices on lectures and training organized in the newly designed and comfortable recreational space called Whale Temple.

In collaboration with Phu Quoc Clean & Green we organize two cleaning events to remove the waste from the beach. The first one is for the global Epizode team and local volunteers on the 15th of December. The second round will be held on the 3rd of January and invites all the guests to participate.

Festival’s art crew is also motivated to organize their workflow in a green way: artists and decorators in the first priority consider reusable options on the second-hand market before buying new stuff or materials.

Epizode Festival returns for 11 days and nights in Vietnam. Party into the New Year from December 27 to January 7 on the white shores of Phú Quốc.

 

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