Boom Wins The Greener Festival Award 2008

Motivação/atribuição/galardão(EN):
- 20,000 portable ashtrays were given at the gates;
- 45.000 litres of used vegetable oil were used, avoiding the emission of 117.000 kg of CO2 into the atmosphere;
- 200.000 litres of water were intentionally evaporated – meaning that not even a liter of water used in Boom showers went to waste;
- 1 million 200 thousand litres of water are being stored in a man made lake for treatment with aquatic plants such as Typha sp, Eichornia sp or Azolla sp;
- 106.5 cubic metres of excrements did not need to be transferred to the local water treatment station for chemical based processing;
- 42.000 kg of organic waste were collected from the 17 restaurants at Boom and are currently undergoing a composting process;
- In six months time, about 20.000 kg of compost should become available for use as an organic agricultural fertilizer;
- 59.000 kg of human excrements were taken from the compost toilets and will also be treated through a worm based composting process resulting in about 30.000 kg of organic compost;
- Materials from other events (Rock in Rio Lisbon and the Amadora International Comic Strip Festival) were collected and re-used by Boom: in total 6 456 kg of plastic, 8 950 kg of metals, 77 kg of paper and 36 822 kg of wood were re-used, resulting in the non-emission of 167.04 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere;
- Around 3.000 people used the Boom Bus (Boom's public transport service).