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Support 10:10 at Leeds Festival

Leeds Festival is pleased to be working alongside with 10:10 to reduce the carbon footprint of Leeds Festival by 10% through efficiency in onsite energy use, waste and water consumption.

By switching to cleaner sources of energy, we are able to reduce carbon emissions and still power the stages, speakers and refreshment stands that make Leeds such a great Festival.

Our ongoing efforts to reduce landfill waste and ensure minimal impact on the environment include zero waste campaigning, reducing material use, comprehensive recycling, switching to biodegradable materials and composting them as well as collecting re-usable goods for charity.

Working alongside, Leeds Festival, Julie’s Bicycle and 10:10 look forward to seeing you onsite and enjoying an amazing weekend, and receiving your pledge to support our efforts at www.1010uk.org.

Working at Leeds Festival 2009
Held at Bramham Park on the bank holiday weekend in August, 28-30 August 2009, the three day music festival hosts the very best music acts from around the world. The 2009 line up includes Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys and Kings of Leon.
Leisure Support Services is the proud supplier of cleaning and recycling services at the festival seeking to maintain a litter free environment during the event and ensuring that the site returns to a pristine state after the event. We undertake a proactive recycling programme to maximise the amount of waste that is recycled.Volunteer detailsA volunteering opportunity exists to be part of Team Recycle. You will receive a free weekend festival ticket in exchange for volunteering for shifts over four days to help facilitate the recycling programme. Employment detailsEmploying over 200 staff we are offering a number of administration, supervisory and recycling positions. For more information on the positions available, please select the role that you are interested in from the column on the left. Positions will be available from approximately 3 August to 11 September 2009.
Each applicant will be invited for an interview and if successful will undergo job specific training. Uniforms will be provided for the duration of the event.

* It takes three weeks to prepare the Leeds festival site and two weeks to take it down again. Over 150 crew build the site.

* The Reading and Leeds festivals combined produce over 300 tonnes of rubbish, which it takes two weeks to clear at the end of the weekend. Over 7000 bags of rubbish were recycled in 2004 through the onsite litter exchanges.* Ten million watts is required to power the festival site at Bramham Park.

* Over 3500 people work at the Leeds festival.

* There are over 800 toilets on site.

* There are 90 food traders onsite, selling a variety of food, from burgers to pasta, doughnuts and even salad! More than 250,000 burgers and hot dogs were eaten over the course of the 2004 Reading and Leeds festivals.

* Two million pints of lager are drunk over the weekend.

* Out of Harm's Way on the Leeds Festival site is named after Harmony who runs the festival production office* The first Leeds Festival was held in 1999 at Temple Newsam. It moved to its current home Bramham Park in 2003.

* Bramham Park is home to and managed by Nicholas Lane Fox and his wife Rachel. Nick is the tenth generation descendant of Robert Benson, the 1st Lord Bingley - the man who created Bramham Park in the 17th century.

* The world famous Bramham Horse Trials, now in their 25th year, are held at Bramham Park in June.

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At Leeds Festival we aim to reduce the environmental impact of the festival and have put together ways of you can help us by doing your part, while still having an awesome festival.More Leeds Festival tickets could be made available to music fans in future if organisers are successful in expanding the event's capacity.

It has been reported that Festival Republic, which organises the festival, wants to expand the maximum capacity by 5,000 every year for the next four years.

That will see the current maximum audience size of 70,000 rise to 90,000, bringing it to a similar size as its sister event the Reading Festival, which currently has a capacity of 87,000.

A proposal has been submitted to Leeds City Council, put together following a multi-agency debrief meeting where the festival's traffic management plan for this year was described as a "huge success".

Furthermore, according to the Yorkshire Evening Post, West Yorkshire Police (WYP) told the meeting there had been a total of 21 arrests at the event, a reduction of 18 on 2009.

The report says: "WYP believe this was due to Leeds Festival security taking action early and evicting people before they were offending."

Tickets for next year's Reading and Leeds Festivals go on sale today (December 3rd).

GREEN LEEDS

In 2007 we introduced some new ways of looking at recycling which we also repeated with great success last year. This included the10p deposit and refund on beer cups. We got close to every single cup back, a massively fantastic result. Thanks to everyone who was at the festival and got into that campaign. We also started the 20p deposit on water bottles. Thousands of them were returned, but there were still many left behind. Remember that every bottle of water sold at the festival has a 20p deposit and you should return it to get your money back. (You’ll also be helping to increase the recycling rates.)

A big thanks to everyone who packed up their camping gear and took it back home with them last year. We also thank all those people that didn’t really want their gear anymore but took the time to pack it up and hand it in. Thousands of camping items such as tents, sleeping bags, camping mats, etc were donated and are making their way to community organisations and charity. We were overloaded with gear and it took our Green Messengers a lot of work to sort out everything, but we were so very happy with the result.This Year
Every drink sold over the bars in a cup will have a 10p deposit on it. All cup carrying trays will also be subject to the 10p deposit. So if you buy a shot, wine, spirit mixer, or beer, and carry your cups in a tray, there’s a 10p deposit. Take every cup and carrying tray from the bars back to the refund points to get your 10p’s back.

There is also a 20p deposit on all One Water bottles sold on site which feature the Festival Republic logo.

Please think about taking your camping gear home rather trashing it or leaving it to end up as trash. Mountain ranges of wrecked tents hit the landfill last year. If you don’t want your gear to end up in landfill and you don’t want to take it home, the only option is for you to keep it undamaged, to pack it up and hand it in for onwards donation. We would prefer you to take it home and re-use it at your next festival.

Leeds Festival is managed in compliance with BS8901.

Read through the various items on the left hand menu bar for more info on what’s in store in 2010.

BUYING STUFF
Limiting the amount of STUFF you kit yourself out with to come camping at the festivals for the weekend, will really help to reduce the overall environmental impact...especially if you are going to throw out your STUFF after the event.

The more STUFF you buy, the bigger your carbon footprint. Your STUFF is mined, manufactured, distributed, retailed and makes its way to your house - transport along the way, power used at every stage. The less STUFF you buy, the smaller your footprint's gonna be.

Before you buy anything for the festival (or even in everyday life), please take the time to watch this 20min film The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard.

www.storyofstuff.com

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20 minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.'

And when you decide to buy stuff, please think about taking it home with you and re-using it for the rest of the season. If you really don't need it, please PACK IT UP AND HAND IT IN!!!

We will have separate collection bays for:

* Tents, Sleeping Mats, Sleeping Bags
* Chairs
* General camping bits and pieces
* Wellies
* Clothes
* Unopened food

Look out for the collection points that will pop up on Monday morning on your way out of the campgrounds.

YOUR CANS COUNT
It is estimated around 8 tonne of aluminium cans are at the festival after the party’s over. Much of this is left on the ground in the campgrounds. We want to let you know that YOUR CANS COUNT.

Bring back a bagful of cans to the Recycle Exchanges in the campgrounds, and we’ll give you a free can of beer. It’s that simple.

We’ll even give you the bag to collect the cans in. They’ll be handed out at wristband exchange when you enter the site, by our Green Messengers wandering the campgrounds, from your campsite manager’s caravan, and also from the Recycle Exchanges.But how do YOUR CANS COUNT?
• For every tonne of aluminium cans recycled only 5% of energy is used than to make one from scratch. That’s a whopping 95% of energy reduced, just by sending cans for recycling.

• An aluminium can recycled could be back on the shelf as another can within six weeks.

• For every tonne of aluminium cans recycled, the aluminium can association of the UK, Alupro, will buy a fruit tree for projects in Malawi run by charity Ripple Africa.

The Litter Exchanges finish up on Sunday night so don’t forget to get your vouchers and redeem your beer before the bars shut…

CUP & TRAY DEPOSIT

In 2007 we introduced a highly successful way of drastically reducing the waste in the arena by having a 10p deposit on beer cups. In 2010 for the fourth year running the 10p deposit will be back and ensure just about every cup and tray will go for recycling rather than being left in the arena for you to wade through and then to end up in landfill.

You’ll pay a 10p deposit when you buy your drinks in cups over the bars. There’s also a 10p deposit on the cardboard cup carrying trays. You’ll get back the 10p when you return your cups and trays to the refund points. Each year more than 90% of the cups have been returned. Just amazing – that’s more than 6 tonnes of cardboard which was diverted from landfill.

WATER BOTTLE DEPOSIT

To work towards getting all the plastic water bottles recycled, each bottle of water sold at the festival will have a 20p deposit charged. When you’ve finished, bring back the empty bottle to the refund points to get your 20p back. Only water sold at stores onsite will be refundable. Other plastic bottles should be placed in the recycling bins.

HANDY TIPS FOR GREEN CAMPERS

The following are tips for you include:

• Minimise the amount of packaging on products purchased
• Avoid buying over-packaged goods and individual portion packs
• Buy durable products, returnable bottles and containers that can be re-filled
• Look out for recycled goods and those packaged in recycled materials
• Cut down on packaging by buying your fruit and vegetables loose
• Buy fair-trade and organic food, drinks and products at stalls if possible
• Use re-sealable containers to keep your food fresh (this reduces the amount of plastic film and aluminium foil you throw away)
• Use rechargeable batteries
• Where you can, recycle what you cannot reuse
• Don't drop your litter. Use the bins and recycling units!
• Litter pickers are lovely! Please help them and make up for 'messy' times
• Don't leave rubbish or indeed your entire camping set behind!
• Say no to plastic bags if offered by market vendors. Bring your own re-useable cloth bag.
• Please please please don’t drop your cigarette butts. Every butt you throw on the ground has to be picked up by someone else. Use an empty film canister to collect your butts.
• Separate your waste at your campsite and bring your recycling to the appropriate bins.
• Use public transport and our shuttle bus service if possible, or look for a lift through Lift Share.
• If you must use your car, then please consider a Lift Share scheme. Making sure your tyres are properly inflated will mean that your car will run more efficiently and will reduce your carbon emissions. If you are in a queue to enter the site, please turn off your engine rather than idling the car.
• Use only phosphate free shampoo and soap in the showers and remember to take a short shower!
• Turn off taps & showers when finished.
• Live by the 'LEAVE NO TRACE' philosophy – take only photos, leave only footprints.