Green Initiatives @ T
T in the Park has an Environmental Management Plan which extends from the team in T Towers busy working away all year round to guarantee the festival is a special weekend, to the moment the last camper leaves and it’s all packed away for another year.
To get across the site you’ll often see Team T hopping onto one of the racks of bicycles available for staff. Not only is this the most entertaining way to get from A to B, it’s the greenest way to get around site…just as long as we don’t fall off!
No, not what goes down the tap when your granny washes her hair! Grey water is non-industrial wastewater. T in the Park takes place in the beautiful surroundings of Balado in Kinross-shire, very close to Loch Leven which has been designated a Site of Specific Scientific Interest by Scottish Natural Heritage. This means it is of special interest due to its floral, fauna, geological or physiographical features. Because of this all contractors and working staff on-site stick to very strict rules about waste water – none is poured onto the ground and there are multiple “Grey Water” collection points around the site which are emptied safely and securely daily.
All festoon lighting in the Campsite uses energy efficient lightbulbs and all the lights are light sensitive meaning they turn off automatically as soon as it is light enough – saving precious kilo-watts and natural resources!
T in the Park has an in-depth Waste Management Plan which every year strives to recycle as much waste generated by the event as possible. In 2008 the event recycled over 60 % if its waste – a figure well above average given the size and scale of the festival.
It’s not just the audience we ask to reduce, reuse and recycle – there are full recycling facilities for all staff and artists on site. We strictly ask everyone in the festival only to order what they need so there’s less waste in the first place!
T in the Park became the world’s largest CarbonNeutral festival in 2006 and continues to be so. The festival’s carbon dioxide emissions (which are generated by the event’s energy use, waste, diesel and artists, crew and fan travel) are offset through various global carbon offset schemes by The CarbonNeutral Company.
Where possible we print all marketing materials related to the event on recycled paper, from sustainable sources.
Can-Able is a project evolved by the Adult Resource Centre in Blairgowrie. This offers adults with learning difficulties therapeutic employment by collecting, processing and sorting aluminium cans for recycling.
Can-Able was established in 1999 and now collects cans from over 300 sites throughout the Perth and Kinross area including T in the Park.
