An hour before a food festival closes, most stalls are still fully stocked. Vendors would rather over-prepare than run out and lose sales, so they cook for the crowd they hope shows up, not the one that actually does. By closing time, trays of food that were perfectly fine at 6pm are either given away […]
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Waste Management
Glastonbury draws around 200,000 people. Oktoberfest draws 6.5 million, more than thirty times as many. By raw numbers, Oktoberfest should bury Glastonbury in waste. It doesn’t: Oktoberfest generates 764 tonnes over sixteen days, while Glastonbury generates roughly 2,000 tonnes in five. A festival a fraction of the size produces more than double the waste, in
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Waste Management
The morning after Ganesh Visarjan, the ghats look nothing like the night before. The drums are gone, the crowd is gone, and what’s left is a tide line of marigold and rose petals, soggy and browning, tangled with incense ash and bits of clay from idols that didn’t fully dissolve. Nobody organised this mess. It’s
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Waste Management