Music festival celebrates after creating innovative solution to major event issue: 'This is a huge win'

Music festival celebrates after creating innovative solution to major event issue: 'This is a huge win'

A small-town music festival in Oregon has dramatically reduced the amount of trash it generates in what organizers called a "huge win" and provided a potential solution to the growing problem of festival waste. This year's Big Ponderoo Music and Art Festival, held in Sisters, diverted nearly three-quarters of its total waste using a new large-scale recycling, composting, and reuse program supported by a 44-strong team of trained volunteers, repo…