Reliance and Greenpop balance festivalgoers' carbon footprint at UTC

This opportunity to 'green' the festival has been provided by the team at Reliance Compost and Greenpop, the greening partners of the event.

By completing a short questionnaire, the answers will calculate the environmental impact of their lifestyle and an assessment will be made with the assistance of a handy IPad App called GreenUp designed to inspire humans to live a little greener and have fun doing it. Then, it is up to each person to help balance their footprint by contributing a small amount towards planting trees in under-greened areas with Greenpop and then they can party on with a clear conscience.

With the added incentive of a free glass of wine, this initiative is expected to hit the right spot with festival goers and to inspire them to up their 'green living' status at this year's festival.

Reliance is well known for basing its operation on 'green' principles and recently achieved a milestone of diverting ten million cubic metres of the City's green garden refuse from landfill. It is the ideal partner for Greenpop, the organisers of the Green Village at the Up the Creek festival.

As the 'green' hub of the festival, the Green Village will be promoting recycling, responsibility, respect for the area and green fun. The company invites everyone to come and visit the photo booth, make green pledges and get creative. On Saturday morning, it will host a talent show.

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