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Dirty, pretty things

12th June 2008

The legendary Isle of Wight festival has hosted some of the greatest acts in rock history, but mixed in amongst the latest guitar heroes is a mountain of rubbish!

130 tonnes of rubbish to be precise and national waste operator Biffa is charged with the task of clearing it up.

"It’s a major undertaking," said site manager Melvyn Allen. "We’re aiming to recycle about 90% of the waste produced by the event."

"We’ll have 150 people working all day and through the night over the course of the weekend. We’ve positioned 700 bins around the site and 26 skips. Many of these are colour-coded for the recovery of plastics and tins. We’ve also supplied containers to on site traders and caterers for the recovery of cardboard."

Recycling is playing a large part in the Festival’s eco-action plan as it strives to reduce its environmental impact.

Even rubbish that is left littering the ground by festival-goers will be recovered and re-used - transported to the island’s waste-to-energy plant, where it will be used to generate electricity.

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