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1). Bizarre sight of the day: seeing a member of the grounds crew using a wet-dry vacuum to suck up standing water on the grass behind Rock Island. See: you can vacuum a lawn! 2). The Rock and Recycle volunteer cleanup crew at ACL is doing yeoman's work ... but the group's actually not doing much of the work itself. They're carrying around signs that state "ask me about a free T-shirt"; when you ask, you learn that to earn the shirt you must collect a large trash bag full of recyclable bottles and cans. The bit is working amazingly well; you can't walk for a minute without seeing a festival-goer lugging around a towering blue plastic sack while scouring the park for disposables. And until dark (when the scouring becomes impossible), Zilker Park is unbelievably free of discarded trash. More later ... got to prepare for my breakfast date with Nicole Atkins. ;) |
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Posted by Kip Mooney @ 2:21 PM Mon, Sep 29, 2008
Thought the Rock & Recycle program was genius! And the free programs were a great idea (two terrific improvements).
But one problem: the back side of Zilker (I'm talking where the food, H-E-Beach, and AT&T Blue Room stage are) is a dust bowl. The big accessory this year (and something I should have gotten) was a bandanna to cover your nose and mouth from all the dust and pollen. This is the second year in a row where a good chunk of the day was ruined because of allergies. And that just ain't gonna fly.
Posted by wednesday @ 4:46 PM Mon, Sep 29, 2008
As a multi-year recycling crew volunteer, I have to say we've been doing similar programs every year since almost the beginning. The difference was, in years past it'd been cups or something to that effect you had to collect, this year it was all manner of cans and bottles. And having 4 stations around the fest (as opposed to the normal 1 by the exit) and advertising the free shirts certainly helped too. The lack of participation in years past actually led to the shortage of goodies we experienced this year, so next year should be a lot better when it comes to size selection. Or at least I hope so.