Major Events Gold Coast (MEGC) has partnered with Clean Vibes to help reduce waste at the city’s major music and entertainment festivals and minimise the impact on the environment.

The partnership will see Clean Vibes become the official cleaning and waste management services provider for all four of MEGC’s festivals in 2023 – Blues on Broadbeach, Cooly Rocks On, SPRINGTIME, and Groundwater Country Music Festival.

MEGC CEO Jan McCormick said partnering with Clean Vibes was a smart way to manage waste and the environmental footprint of MEGC’s portfolio of award-winning festivals.

“As our festivals grow in popularity, we’re seeing attendance increase and with that comes additional waste challenges,” said McCormick.

“We want to make sure we continue to give our fans the best possible festival experience and that means ensuring we are following best practice when it comes to sustainable waste management. We also want to make sure our festivals don’t impact negatively on the beautiful locations we deliver them in.”

Nick Viner, national operations manager, Clean Vibes, said Clean Vibes was proud to partner with MEGC) to bring sustainable waste management and cleaning services to the Gold Coast community.

“We look forward to continuing to work with the MEGC team to maximise recycling and promote sustainable initiatives across its portfolio of festivals on the Gold Coast,” said Viner.

Some of the initiatives that have been introduced at MEGC’s festivals are waste sorting onsite and implementing the can and bottle return scheme. Vendors are also asked to put in place sustainable practices to reduce overall waste and maximise recycling.

“Clean Vibes works closely with MEGC and all stakeholders to make sure we are being as sustainable as possible,” said Viner.

“We work with all festival vendors to ensure they are using approved recyclable or compostable service ware products onsite and the Clean Vibes team sort through all waste into their appropriate waste streams. At MEGC’s festivals we also use waste stream bin covers to promote and educate festival patrons about waste separation which has already led to great outcomes on general waste being diverted from landfill.”

McCormick said  MEGC is committed to continuing to find ways to reduce the amount of waste from our festivals that ends up in landfill.”

“We are proud to work with Clean Vibes to embrace new recycling and other sustainable initiatives and encourage our festival fans to do their part to reduce the impact on our environment as well.”

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