Waste Management

Since 2015, we have been implementing a detailed waste management plan that governs on-site waste handling, disposal routes, and documentation—both for visitors’ waste and all waste generated behind the scenes. Through various on-site measures, we support the separate collection and pre-sorting of waste. To the extent that our waste management partner’s available disposal channels permit, residual waste is subsequently sent to a sorting facility.

To help you sort your trash properly, every guest receives two trash bags upon entry: a yellow one for packaging and a clear one for residual waste.

Batteries, electronic devices, returnable containers, and paper do not belong in the bags but can be handed in to the festival’s own waste collection service.

To make waste disposal easy, recycling stations with separate areas for packaging, cardboard, paper, returnable containers, and general waste are available throughout the campground.

In addition, the waste collection service will be making rounds throughout the entire campground from Saturday through Monday, collecting your trash bags and other types of waste, and will be available to answer any questions you may have about waste disposal.

Backstage, too, all staff and participants are encouraged to sort their trash, and for vendors, sponsors, and food service providers, proper disposal is arranged through commercial waste collection facilities.

Since 2022, the Trasholution project has been in place to combine social and environmental sustainability: For every bag of properly disposed-of trash, we donate one euro to social projects in the festival region. For a trash bag containing sorted packaging waste, the donation is doubled from 1 euro to 2 euros.