St. Louis Earth Day again brings Recycling on the Go to Shakespeare Festival!

Recycling on the Go is the region’s first wide-scale event recycling program. The goal is to reduce the negative environmental impact of events and festivals by reducing and recycling a portion of the waste they generate.

Last year, St. Louis Earth Day hauled out 5.3 tons of recyclable material from Shakespeare Festival performances. So please play a starring role when you attend the Festival and place all recyclable items in the St. Louis Earth Day recycling containers. The only non-recyclable items are styrofoam and food waste. It’s that simple!

Local food vendor Cairdeas Coffee House has also joined the effort and will cut down waste by using real plates and silverware for their Festival catering efforts. They are also always working to provide locally grown and vegetarian food options, so be sure to consider Cairdeas for your Festival fare!

We are also making the Shakespeare Festival as green as possible by working with Pure Power to offset 100% of the energy used to power our nightly performances with emission-free Missouri Wind Energy Certificates.

The portable restroom units provided by locally-owned R & R Sanitation are made from recycled plastic and use eco-friendly chemicals and recycled paper products. And when the final curtain comes down, St. Louis Earth Day will coordinate our donation of set materials to Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore.