Greening the Fair!

 GREENING THE FAIR

At EcoFair360, we’re “walkin’ the walk” – taking extra care and effort to make certain that we provide a sustainable event experience from the time spent in our offices to your time spent at the Fair.

LEAVE NO TRACE
As an EcoFair360 policy, we ask that you join us in making this Fair a minimal impact event. All Fair participants and visitors are asked to clean up and protect the fairgrounds from any trash or negative impact by recycling appropriately whenever possible.

ECOFAIR360 IS A TRAVEL GREEN WISCONSIN CERTIFIED DESTINATION

Travel Green Wisconsin has recognized EcoFair360 as a recipient of the Travel Green Certification. To achieve Travel Green certification, EcoFair360 met goals including reduction of waste through reuse and recycling, water conservation and wastewater management, energy efficiency, benefitting the local community and local farms and food providers, landscape conservation, and encouraging  alternative transportation.

In addition, EcoFair360 purchases Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) to offset 100% of the electricity used over the three days of the fair. The REC’s are purchased from one of our Fair sponsors, Community Green Energy, LLC.

Travel Green Wisconsin is a voluntary program that reviews, certifies and recognizes attractions in Wisconsin that have made a commitment to reduce their environmental impact. For more information on Travel Green Wisconsin, visit www.travelgreenwisconsin.com.

FREE ELECTRONIC RECYCLING

Courtesy of DP Electronic Recycling, EcoFair360 will host this free event all weekend long. Bring in your old electronics to be recycled, including cell phones, computers, ipods,  ipads and TV’s.  All hard drives will be wiped to Department of Defense standards.

ADDITIONAL FAIR POLICIES AND ACTIONS:

• No plastic bags or bottles will be sold or used, or allowed on the fairgrounds  
• Visitors are encouraged to use and refill water bottles with fresh filtered water available at no charge
• No smoking allowed on the fairgrounds
• Re-use of storage boxes
• Use of electric vehicles on fair grounds
• All food vendors have agreed to use utensils, plates and cups made from corn so they are completely compostable.
• All food demonstrations will use compostable plates, cups and utensils or reusable glass materials
• Recycling stations will be available so that items that are recyclable will be diverted from the landfill
• $3.50 out of $5 parking fee goes towards the retirement of REC’s on honor of the fair, helping to reduce the environmental impact by cars traveling to the Fair
• Alternative energy vehicles park for free

PRINTED MATERIALS

• Print with local print shop
• 100% recycled materials for offset pieces
• Soy inks for offset pieces
• Local printer is using low water press
• Print low numbers of materials using electronic formats whenever possible
• Encouraging people to use our internet forms for sign-ups

ECOFAIR OFFICE:

• Replaced 80% efficient with new 95% high efficiency furnaces with variable speed fans
• Installed 4’ by 8’ sky light for day lighting
• Installing this Summer 2.5 Kw solar electric system
• Foam insulation in all walls and voids – windows caulked
• All paper products are post-consumer and/recycled content
• Using crystal air cleaner Freshwave in bathrooms – no aerosol sprays
• Our weekly office cleaning company only uses green cleaners and practices
• Water filter on faucet – no bottled water in office
• We use real plates and glasses  - no disposables
• We purchased RECs for 100% of the office energy use
• All co-mingling and paper is recycled weekly
• Temperature is kept as low as possible in winter (68 degrees during the work day, at night 60 degrees)
• Summer temp is kept at 74 degrees and turned off at night and weekends.
• Scanning and email has replaced 99% hard copy faxes
• Travel Green certification for our offices