Tempe City Roots: Creating a Zero-Waste Music Festival that Focuses on Diverting Trash and Food Waste

Music festivals are often used as a way to generate money for a company or cause. In the case of Keep Tempe Beautiful, the organization is looking to create a sustainable music festival that will generate revenue to keep the organization going. Keep Tempe Beautiful is an organization that is volunteer-based with goals to end littering, improve recycling, and keep the city looking beautiful. Creating a sustainable festival, named Tempe City Roots, that aligns with these goals comes with research, problem-solving, and lots of planning. As seen in the reflection and presentations, I have helped plan Tempe City Roots and created sustainable solutions to implement at the festival. Along with planning the overall festival (logistics, branding, agreements), I created my own brand, Friendly Festival, that follows the guidelines created for Tempe City Roots and will apply the guidelines to other festivals so they can implement and create a sustainable and environmentally friendly festival.