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For the third year, a music festival will be staged on a man-made island in San Francisco Bay. And this year's Treasure Island Music Festival, on Oct. 17 and 18, is greener than ever, organizers say, with a line-up that that includes MGMT, Girl Talk, The Streets, The Flaming Lips, Yo La Tengo and Bob Mould.
During the last two festivals, organizers were able to divert up to 72 percent of the event's waste to recycling and composting.
They're shooting to do more this year to offset the festival's impact, notes MusicConnection.com.
Zero-emission buses will bring concert-goers from AT&T Park to the island. Pickup Pal is organizing car pools to the parking lot. For bicycle riders, The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition will be checking bikes and making sure you don't come back to find a wheel missing.
For water, you can bring your own bottle and fill up with spring water for a buck, or buy a stainless steel bottle at the festival and refill it all weekend for free.
There also will be friendly trash cops, and bins marked for compost, recycling and trash. Leftover food will go to Bay area shelters.
There are almost too many other green features to list. If this were a building, it might be U.S. Green Building Council certified.
Tickets run from $65 for a one-day pass to $250 for a VIP Single Day 2-Pack.
"One of the things I think we'll see this year is less waste in general," said Stacy Horne, events director for Noise Pop Industries, one of the festival producers.
She said the event is a way to entertain and educate, and that visitors often come away with some new tips on recycling and composting.
"It always surprises people, the things you can compost, like coffee cups," Horne said.
The festival's green tint was just one line in a song when the event started, but now it's the chorus.
"At first it was kind of this whole extra thing and now it's become an integral part of the event," Horne said.
Promoters hope to take next year's concert to the next level, by working with bands to offset their carbon footprint for traveling to the festival. This year, concert-goers will have the option of adding a dollar to their ticket price to offset a portion of the festival's carbon emissions.
About 12,000 people are expected to turn out during each of the festival's two days --- and leave behind almost no trash. Kind of the opposite of the litter aftermath of typical outdoor concerts.
"We're hoping to create a community," Horne said. "I think that is happening, where people really care about the festival site and want it keep it clean ...
"It's such a beautiful location ... I think people want to preserve that and hang out and not be surrounded by trash."
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