Zero Waste Partnership

Zero Waste Initiative

MAnaFest Big Island is proud to partner with Permaculture Master, Scott Laaback, the Ground Zero Initiative and
The Center for Getting Things Started (C4GTS)

"Zero Waste" is a way of life that promotes the goal of reducing the amount of material we throw away. One way to achieve that goal is to re-imagine resource management whereby instead of disposing of "waste" we re-incorporate the by-products of one system to be used by another system, and the by-products of the next system is used by another and so on in a virtuous loop. There is no such thing as "waste" in Nature. In nature, the by-product of one system is feedstock for another system.

Only humans have created this thing called "waste."

Ancient Hawaiian culture lived this sustainable way before the term "Zero Waste" came to be. We can live this way again through small shifts in our daily activities. In this way, we greatly reduce our impact on Hawai'i Island's natural environment, protect the island's nature, preserve our resources for future generations,
and save our community tax dollars."

Zero Waste is part of a larger story to be told.

MAnaFest Big Island is offering a few sustainability options;
encouraging Carpools of 3 or more for Free Preferred Parking ($3. value) and
we support the use of our Facebook page for MAnaFest Big Island 2019 guests
to self organize carpools and ride shares!
We will also post a Heleon bus schedule and estimated walk time from the Pahoa stop.
We encourage community to bring their own personal refillable water vessel
and ‘blissware’
(plate/cup/chopsticks/cutlery) for use during the festival.

We require the use of compostable dishware and flatware by our food vendors and
we provide easy to use recycling stations at event venues.
The compostables will be directly applied to the land here at Hawaiian Sanctuary
and eventually feed an orchard or garden.
We post our workshop and music schedules at a central information station
and at various locations on site, and we ask guests to take a photo on their phones for reference, rather than hand out disposable fliers, and
we use wristbands with minimal waste.

Our Ground Zero Initiative partners the ‘Center for Getting Things Started’ (C4GTS) will be providing a Tree Planting opportunity at their booth for festival goers to optionally offset their carbon footprint through the purchase of a $5 coconut keiki, to be planted during their upcoming coconut festival "Growing Gaia” at Uncle’s Awa Club in nearby Kalapana.