Waste management: Waste-free concerts and events

June 8, 2023

Patrik Johansson, Hasse Jönsson, och Jessica Nederman outside Sofiero gård, where the summer concerts and the waste management pilot project will be carried out.

Bengt Fellbe, Program Leader, SSEC, Swedish Surplus Energy Collaboration, directs our thoughts to waste-free concerts and events and reckons that for the first time, this remarkable waste management notion may work

The summer concerts at Sofiero Gård, Helsingborg in Sweden, will be free of waste and rubbish. Everything is composted on-site and becomes organic fertilizer. Solserv has composting machines that work perfectly for the home, office, restaurant, hotel, industry, etc. The machines can handle everything from 5kg to as much as 100 tons of food waste daily.

Composting technology

The composting technology transforms food scraps and packaging with the help of microbes. It is an entirely circular and sustainable solution, which ultimately contributes to sustainably fertilized agricultural land instead of using mineral fertilizers, says Patrik Johansson, CEO of Solserv.

Waste-free concerts & events to promote sustainability

There have, of course, been attempts to arrange sustainable events and waste-free concerts in the past. The problem arises because it was then always a matter of placing great responsibility on the visitor. It must be sorted into different fractions, which has proven too difficult to work. This leads to everything becoming residual waste and going to incineration – it needs to be better and sustainable. With composting technology and the right choice of materials in packaging, everything can be composted in the same machine and process. Visitors do not have to make conscious choices that are complex.

Another advantage is that the entire process takes place on-site, and given that the waste is reduced by up to 90%, the need for transport subsequently reduces, further reinforcing a reduced climate footprint.