The 3 R approach has been one of our guidelines for Boom construction. We Reuse, Recycle and Reduce, sometimes we turn the rubbish of others into amazing art
For the second time in 2010 we did a partnership with one mainstream festival in Portugal to recycle their rubbish and materials.
We went there to get timber, flooring, metals, plastics and some other materials.
Boom reused 86,475kg of materials thus avoiding overconsumption of resources for the construction of our festival. According to the tool IWM -2 (Integrated Waste Management Model 2), developed by the Lisbon University IST, we avoided the emission of 254,000 kg of CO2 with this initiative.
Some other facts: 90% of the Healing Area, for instance, was done with reused materials. 80% of Groovy Beach was made of recycled pallets. 100% of Golden Shack Pagoda and Gamelatron was done with recycling of rubbish. 100% of restaurants cover made of recycled lycra.
Here is the table of materials we reused from that event only:
- Iron: 195kg
- Wood: 46,700kg
- Synthetic grass and flooring: 39,310kg
- Linoleum: 100kg
- Vinyl: 100kg
- Acrylic: 70 kg
