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Hello BEST, Last month, volunteers at a music festival in Nelsonville Ohio were able to divert 3,090 pounds (1401.6 kg) of trashed material away from the landfill, resulting in “1,234 pounds of recyclables and 1,856 pounds of compost.” The organizer, Rural Action, spearheaded this supposed two-fold increase in diversion rate from the previous year’s event through their Zero Waste Initiative. Ultimately, however, it was vendor and audience participation, along with the 150 volunteers who shifted through hundreds of bags of trash, which lead to the success of the operation. Reports such as this serve to illustrate how communities can, indeed, work together to create responsible, sustainable changes. Cheers, Henry Legett Bioenergy and Sustainability School Intern http://www.newsandsentinel.com/page/content.detail/id/561977/Volunteers-double-recycling-and-composting-at-festival.html?nav=5061 Volunteers double recycling and composting at festival Parkersburg News and Sentinel June 11, 2012