Rhythm and Vines is a very large event and thousands come from all over the country annually to enjoy it, unfortunately this has a negative impact on the surrounding environment, due to the amount of people attending.
In order to minimise the effects that this event will have on the environment the organisers must take actions to avoid pollution and unnecessary damage to the property. The festival sees over 25,000 people with 10,000 living on site for 3 days, this leads to mass amounts of garbage and pollution. This music festival is held in a winery and many intoxicated young people are found there. This leads to an excess of bottles, cans and broken items, if left this would create a horrible imprint on the environment. Gisborne is a "zero waste council" this means that they take particular care for the environment, this means that it is expected for large scale events such as Rhythm and Vines it will be clean and green. The organisers of Rhythm and Vines took a lot of care when handling rubbish and had labelled bins for General waste and Recycles. They also used environmental practices as all of the packaging products used by food vendors (Coffee cups, Plates etc) were biodegradable, this means that it will not harm the environment as it will break down much faster inside a landfill. All the food waste was fed to nearby livestock or put into the worm farm. The organisers placed "Green Police" which are people who would monitor the bins to help others know what bin they should place their rubbish in. This helps not only the environment but to educate those attending the festival leading to a cleaner New Zealand. It is also recommended to those staying on site to "pre-cycle" bringing food in Tupperware containers to reduce rubbish at the campsite. If the organisers of this event did not take such measures to ensure the property remains prestine and show an attempt to minimise the carbon footprint then it is possible that they may not gain resource consent. Without resource consent they would not be able to hold the festival resulting in financial difficulties due to a loss of profit. This is because many small business in Gisborne rely on the influx of customers due to Rhythm and Vines.
In order to minimise the effects that this event will have on the environment the organisers must take actions to avoid pollution and unnecessary damage to the property. The festival sees over 25,000 people with 10,000 living on site for 3 days, this leads to mass amounts of garbage and pollution. This music festival is held in a winery and many intoxicated young people are found there. This leads to an excess of bottles, cans and broken items, if left this would create a horrible imprint on the environment. Gisborne is a "zero waste council" this means that they take particular care for the environment, this means that it is expected for large scale events such as Rhythm and Vines it will be clean and green. The organisers of Rhythm and Vines took a lot of care when handling rubbish and had labelled bins for General waste and Recycles. They also used environmental practices as all of the packaging products used by food vendors (Coffee cups, Plates etc) were biodegradable, this means that it will not harm the environment as it will break down much faster inside a landfill. All the food waste was fed to nearby livestock or put into the worm farm. The organisers placed "Green Police" which are people who would monitor the bins to help others know what bin they should place their rubbish in. This helps not only the environment but to educate those attending the festival leading to a cleaner New Zealand. It is also recommended to those staying on site to "pre-cycle" bringing food in Tupperware containers to reduce rubbish at the campsite. If the organisers of this event did not take such measures to ensure the property remains prestine and show an attempt to minimise the carbon footprint then it is possible that they may not gain resource consent. Without resource consent they would not be able to hold the festival resulting in financial difficulties due to a loss of profit. This is because many small business in Gisborne rely on the influx of customers due to Rhythm and Vines.
83% of those who attend Rhythm and Vines are from outside of Gisborne, this will have a massive impact creating a great deal of carbon emissions. The organisers of Rhythm and Vines joined Intercity (Bus Company) and Jay-Ride to help make it cheaper to travel to Gisborne but also better for the environment. If travelling with Intercity the commuters can save $110 this encourages them to not take their own car, therefore reducing emissions.
The Edge radio station one of the festivals sponsors,encourages the festival goers to reduce their carbon footprints, by decorating their cars to suit the festivals theme. The edge road runners will hand out free drinks, food and premium tickets to cars decorated with 4 or more people inside. This increases the amount of carpooling reducing carbon emissions. The event lasts 3 days and there is a group of 2000 volunteers that help to clean up. The event only allows campers to stay for 5 nights to minimise the impact on the grass that the tents sit ontop. The duration of the event is short and the clean up is quick this is beneficial to the environment. All of the tickets were purchased online through Minttix The festival brings a great deal of profit into the community approx 11 Million dollars. (including ticket sales, food purchases, merch ect) Part of this money can be spent on preparing the grounds for the arrival of thousands and repairing damages to the environment.
The Edge radio station one of the festivals sponsors,encourages the festival goers to reduce their carbon footprints, by decorating their cars to suit the festivals theme. The edge road runners will hand out free drinks, food and premium tickets to cars decorated with 4 or more people inside. This increases the amount of carpooling reducing carbon emissions. The event lasts 3 days and there is a group of 2000 volunteers that help to clean up. The event only allows campers to stay for 5 nights to minimise the impact on the grass that the tents sit ontop. The duration of the event is short and the clean up is quick this is beneficial to the environment. All of the tickets were purchased online through Minttix The festival brings a great deal of profit into the community approx 11 Million dollars. (including ticket sales, food purchases, merch ect) Part of this money can be spent on preparing the grounds for the arrival of thousands and repairing damages to the environment.
Rhythm and Vines is a very environmetally responsible event, 30,000 people coming to Gisborne from all over New Zealand and the world has a taxing effect on the envrionment and can cause a lot of damage to the grounds but also emissions from traveling far distances. I think that this was planned exceptionally well, teaming up with JayRide and Intercity saves the attendees money and saves the enironment. Carpooling and taking buses reduces congestion and carbon emissions. I think that this aspect if planning was very sucessful as hundreds of people took buses, this meant that there was less cars on the road. However these buses only stopped at main citys e.g Auckland, so people had to communte to the bus which could have discouraged some people from catching it. The Rhythm and Vines organisers in the future could improve this by having more buses stopping in smaller towns, cheaper fares and more comfortable seats will also encourage more people to catch to bus to Rhythm and Vines. Rhythm and Vines Recycles 2/3 of all rubbish this means that the planning for disposal of rubbish was very effective, this was due to having green police as mentioned above to help with pre rubbish selection, this helps to decrease the effect that this event has on the environment. All of the cutlery used by food vendors was biodegradable, this was sucessful decreasing the amount of unrecyclable plasitc, but in future they could not use any and make the attendes bring their own coffee cups and plates etc to decrease this further.