07/07/22
It is OUR festival! Help us and support our Eco Initiative
Soon before World non-waste Day, the GOCC Foundation launched its action of the post-event cleanup of the area of the Most Beautiful Festival in the World. Everyone can play their part and contribute to support the initiative.
Pol’and’Rock Festival is the GOCC Foundation’s way of saying “thank you” to everyone who supports the Grand Finale of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation in January, and a festival that the audience creates together with its organiser. Such an approach is manifested in the Eco Initiative – “Zaraz Będzie Czysto” [Eng. “It’s about to be clean”] initiated a few years ago. Festivalgoers are encouraged to clean up after themselves, limit the amount of the produced waste, as well as to segregate and hand over recyclable rubbish to the dedicated collection points within the festival area.
You too may support the Eco Initiative at the 28th Pol’and’Rock Festival by making a donation, which the Foundation will then use to cover the cost of the post-festival cleanup, i.a. of the purchase of the thousands of rubbish bags.
Zaraz Będzie Czysto! - It's about to be clean! Let’s do it all together – the challenge is huge, but let's start with... several thousands of rubbish bags. It is the cost of PLN 40 800. We will manage to collect that sum! Ready, steady, go! Our next challenge will be the containers. Let's join our forces!-- encourages Jurek Owsiak, originator and organiser of the Pol'and'Rock Festival
Zaraz Będzie Czysto - Eco Innitiative at Pol’and’Rcok Festival
28th Pol’and’Rock Festival is yet another occasion on which the GOCC Foundation addresses the issue of waste-disposal and cleaning up the event’s area.
Our Zaraz Będzie Czysto eco initiative was first launched in 2018. As many as 94% of the festivalgoers learnt about this action from our SM channels. Promoting the eco drive during the festival was also appreciated by the Polish Public Relations Consultancies Association which awarded the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation with “Srebrny Spinacz” [Eng. “Silver Clip Award” – one of the most prestigious awards in the Polish PR industry] in the social media category.
In 2019 there were 157 locations where the festival-goers could dump their rubbish, including the waste sorting and waste purchase points, and recyclers in the PreZero zones and in the Lubuskie Voivodeship.
At the 27th Pol’and’Rock Festival in 2021 there were 21 waste collection points installed and each festivalgoer would receive their special rubbish bag.
About the 28th Pol’and’Rock Festival
28th edition of the Pol’and’Rock Festival will be held between August 4-6, 2022 at the premises of the Czaplinek – Broczyno airport, ca. 7 km away from Czaplinek, in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. Among the already revealed artists from this year’s festival line-up, there are King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, STAKE, GWAR, Wolf Alice, Clutch, Tagada Jones, and Kwiat Jabłoni. Our Festival is open and the entrance is free of charge. 28th Pol’and’Rock Festival will take a form of a massive peace manifestation with the main message: NO WAR.
Anna Libertowska