In 2008, Earth Celebration launched the EC+O Project to make the festival more eco-friendly, starting with initiatives to reduce the waste generated by the event. With the environment and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in mind, EC kindly asks everyone who joins the festival to help us reduce EC’s impact on the earth. Here’s how you can help:

(1) Please bring your own chopsticks and cutlery

Help us greatly reduce waste by bringing your own chopsticks and cutlery (spoons, forks, etc.) to EC and using it every time you eat at Harbour Market, Fringe Market at Triangle Park, or other event venues. If you don’t bring your own, you can purchase reusable cutlery* onsite. Look for cutlery stalls at EC event venues where food is sold. Proceeds from the sales will be used for waste management and to help us run new eco-friendly initiatives moving forward. There will be designated sinks set up at Harbour Market and Triangle Park where you wash their own cutlery, ready to reuse. This year again, EC Committee will recommend to all food and beverage vendors that they do not provide plastic utensils and plastic bags. *We plan to sell reusable chopsticks, spoons, and forks.

(2) Please bring your own shopping bag

This will greatly help reduce the number of plastic bags used at the event. Please remember your bag(s) when you visit Harbour Market, Earth Celebration Fair, and other local stores.

(3) Please separate your trash

At Harbour Market, we will be actively promoting and facilitating trash separation at a designated trash and recycling station. Please help us reduce EC’s impact on the environment by separating your trash carefully and disposing of it in the appropriate bins. Staff will be available to assist, so feel free to ask if anything is unclear. We greatly appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

(4) Please recycle where possible

For those who use contact lenses, we ask that you cooperate in recycling the contact lens packaging. There will be dedicated recycling bins specifically for used/empty contact lens packaging located at the EC Info Centre and Sado Island Taiko Centre (Tatakokan). Please place any empty contact lens packaging that you may have, with the aluminum seal lid taken off completely.