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The steel pints at the Levitate Music and Arts Festival greatly reduce its use of plastic cups.
Photo courtesy of the Levitate Music and Arts Festival

To help reduce single-use products, Levitate The California Roots Music & Arts Festival in
partners with REVERB to provide water stations Monterey, CA, was nominated in 2017 and 2018

throughout the concert area, and festival for the FestX Award for “Outstanding Green

attendees are urged to bring their own bottle Event,” and works with various greening partners

or purchase a branded one at the concert. By to implement and achieve its environmental

counting the water fill-ups and amount of water initiatives. From partnering with Blue Strike

dispensed, it is estimated that Levitate saved Environmental to conserve natural resources
almost 28,000 single-use plastic bottles from and reduce waste, emissions and associated

being used in 2018. Purchase of the festival’s environmental impacts – their waste diversion

steel pint is also encouraged to cut down on rate increased from 41% in 2017 to 81% in

plastic cups. This year, Levitate is also partnering 2018 – to working with Green Pedal Couriers

with Everybody Water to provide fully recyclable, to encourage alternate transportation to the

eco-friendly packaged water all weekend. When festival by providing free and secure bike and

the music is over, the green efforts don’t end. To skateboard valet – the efforts of “Cali Roots”
help the infrastructure of Marshfield, the garbage reach into every aspect of the festival.

created at Levitate is sorted for recycling and Like Levitate, Cali Roots works with Trip Zero to

composting. With help from Garbage to Garden, offset its travel carbon footprint, and since 2015,

the festival was able to divert 210 yards of has offset 7,623,473 pounds of carbon through

recycling materials and 30 yards of compostable various certified carbon-offset projects around
materials away from the landfill in 2018. the world. To positively impact its environmental

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