Twenty Five thousand people are expected to attend the The Blue Ridge BBQ Festival Friday night and Saturday. And along with dozens of vendors, something interesting is taking place behind the scenes. The festival has gone green. In the third year doing so, the festival is one of the first major festivals to take on saving the planet. Its also reducing the amount of waste clogging Polk County.
Cans and paper items are being carefully recycled; and garbage is being thrown into a compost pile. The goal is to reduce the amount of trash coming out of the two day festival.
"If we can take half of the material being generated here and keep it out of the landfill and put it back in the manufacture sector and the ground for compost than we've done a good job," said one of the volunteers.
And they will be leading the way; other festivals are thinking of following this one's lead.
The festival opens Saturday morning at ten in the morning and closes at eleven in the evening.
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