For the first time the Santa Monica Festival will be a Zero Waste event. All food will be composted, all utensils and serving pieces will be biodegradable and plant based (and supplied to the food vendors by the festival staff), and all cans, bottles and paper materials will be recycled.

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The Santa Monica Festival is a celebration with a purpose, highlighting the dynamic connection between the City’s communities, culture, business, environment and art.

Now in its sixteenth year, the Santa Monica Festival is the City’s preeminent cultural showcase and continues to honor the many cultures that have shaped Santa Monica’s history and the environment that sustains them.

The festival aims to inspire participants to live a greener, healthier and more sustainable lifestyle. Aside from the explosion of activity and artistic expression, much of the electricity required for the event is generated on-site with solar panels, the rest is generated by clean power sources like geothermal. For the first time, the Festival will be zero waste – the goal of which is to eliminate garbage going into landfills and to maximize recycling. All food related waste will be recycled or composted, including biodegradable forks and plates used to eat the various delicacies available. Attendees are encouraged to go green by riding bikes to a pre-festival bicycle decorating workshop and then pedaling to Clover Park to kick start the Festival. Leave your ride with our bike valets, learn how to repair your bike on the fly, and enter the raffle for a bicycle and other prizes.