Bristol Waste at the Balloon Fiesta 2018
You can recycle as much as the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta 2018
In 2018, we joined forces with Bristol International Balloon Fiesta to celebrate the amount of waste successfully recycled at the event each year and encourage Bristol to keep the good work going at home.
Despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of people visited the Fiesta site at Ashton Court Estate, approximately 86 per cent of the waste was recycled. The remaining 14 per cent was sent for energy recovery, meaning no waste produced at the four-day event will be sent to landfill.
The ‘Love Bristol’ cubes showed the average weekly recycling waste volume per Bristol household in 2018 – the filled area was the amount we actually recycled.
This recycling rate was well above the household rate achieved in Bristol. We used the event as an example of good practice, praising visitors for the great effort made during the event but urged them to apply the same practices when they returned home.
An animation illustrating how much more the city could have recycled each week and each year was created using visuals of a solar hot air balloon and Ashton Court Estate, highlighting the size of the opportunity.
We also animated the size of the city’s litter mountain that highlighted the significant challenge of keeping the city’s streets clean.
Waste is a shared responsibility and we are committed to playing its part, but we need the support of all Bristol’s citizens.
Tracey Morgan, managing director of Bristol Waste, commented: “We’re interested in bringing to life the challenges of recycling and litter collection in the city. Waste is a shared responsibility and Bristol Waste is committed to playing its part, but we do need the support of all Bristol’s citizens”.
Aiming to make Bristol a cleaner city, we are committed to working in partnership with the people of Bristol to help all communities recycle more and throw away less.
Keeping the streets tidy is a monumental task. We have 450 colleagues keeping 800 miles of streets and footpaths clean and collecting 160,000 tonnes of waste and recycling annually.
