Why Tito’s, Southwest and Jack Daniel’s Keep Going Back to Willie Nelson’s ‘Anti-Festival’

Texas-sized sustainability challenges

This yr’s competition was powered by roughly 95% photo voltaic vitality, 5% shore energy and no gas-powered mills, Bizer stated, which Luck was in a position to obtain via a partnership with Reverb and Overdrive Vitality Options.

Whereas this represents main progress in sustainability, some boundaries are inherent to Luck’s location. The Texas Hill Nation doesn’t have the recycling and composting services for occasions like Bonnaroo or Exterior Lands. It eradicated “single-use” plastics from the occasion this yr, permitting solely bio-based, compostable plastics for use for meals and drinks—acknowledging that with out entry to industrial composting, it’s all going to landfill.

“Hopefully throughout the subsequent two to 3 years, we’ll be totally 100% compostable and recyclable,” Bizer stated. “Our objective finally is to get as near carbon-neutral as attainable.”