Making a positive difference with compostable packaging
In most cases, large festivals and events involving food service inevitably produce significant volumes of waste — which often ends up in a landfill. But some event organisers, like Noosa Food & Wine Festival, are bucking the trend and opting for sustainable solutions.
Noosa Food & Wine Festival has teamed up with BioPak to work towards being a zero-waste event, setting the standard for the future of foodservice festivals.
How Noosa Food & Wine Festival have reduced their waste to landfill?
With a constellation of vendors and guests gathered at UNESCO biosphere reserve, the Noosa Food & Wine Festival event coordinators implemented sustainable event management practices and sought out more environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional single-use packaging.
In partnership with BioPak, Tourism Noosa, Plastic Free Noosa, the Noosa Food & Wine Festival worked together to make the event plastic-free and manage the environmental impacts associated with the event.
Part of the solution was the introduction of a mandate that all catering partners and vendors use certified compostable food packaging, all to be collected after use.
What difference does it make?
Just like Noosa Food & Wine Festival, you too can make a lasting positive impact.
A festival using 100,000 hot dog boxes, plates, cups, knives and forks in one night can make a big difference by choosing compostable cups and joining Compost Connect.
Here’s how:
- Using compostable packaging means you’ll create and offset 23 tonnes of carbon
- Saving “no” to conventional plastic packaging means you’ll avoid 7 tonnes of plastic being made and the 6,860 litres of crude oil used to make it
- And by diverting packaging and food scraps from landfill and composting it instead, you’ll create 5 tonnes of compost and avoid the creation of 12 tonnes of carbon
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