This week we talked to Renee from Warped’s Eco Initiative, we learn what Keep a Breast’s Non Toxic Revolution is all about, and the dudes from Big D and the Kids Table chat about how kids today are justinherently greener. Watch this week’s video:
Green quotables from this interview:
Renee, on how the tour has been going: The tour has been excellent. We have done so much when it comes to the world from thousands and thousands of pounds of recycling that we’ve collected to the biodiesel that we fuel to our solar-powered stages, it’s going really really well this year.
Kyle from Keep a Breast on the NTR: The Non-Toxic Revolution is Keep-A-Breast’s newest Campaign. Basically what we’re trying to do is educate people about the different toxins we’re exposed to every day that lead to cancer initiation. So things like deodorants and lotions, plastic water bottles, things like that.
Renee, on who helps do the clean ups: It’s all volunteer based. We have 20 volunteers that are able to sign up online before the tour starts. They come for each city and they help us pick up bottles and cans all day long. We clean back stages, we clean bus areas, and we clean up catering. Anything you could think of that might get a little dirty, we go in and recycle it all for them.
Juliet asks Keep A Breast: What kind of campaigns or activites are you running related to the Non-Toxic Revolution?
Kyle: Well we have our traveling education booth out here at Warped Tour to travel all around the United States. We also have our plastic sucks petition- it’s kind of like a pledge for people to use less plastic to lower the risk of cancer and help out the environment. We also have our campus clubs which we’re starting up and it’s going to be getting kids involved in their local communities, making a change in their community to be greener and to educate more people about the Non-Toxic- Revolution
Dave from Big D and The Kids Table on the Non-Profits: They are pretty much the hardest workers out here. They have to get up at an ungodly hour, be in the sun all day, and they don’t get the “hey, nice set” at the end of the day
Juliet asks: If a water bottle is left, like, in your car and there’s water in it and say it’s in there in the sun, baking in there for a couple days or whatever, you should just not drink that?
Kyle: You should NOT drink that!
Dave, on being green when not on Warped: We had Sarah from Rock n’ Renew meet with us once, and that organization tries to help bands from their vans to their rehearsal space to their homes repurpose their living environments to be more green.
Kyle, on the goals of the Non-Toxic Revolution: Hopefully, it will just make [people] aware of the things that they’re exposed to everyday so they can lower their risk of cancer and live a healthier happier life.
Dave: The kids these days, meaning people in middle school, high school, college, they’re like, ready to do it. In their brain, they’re all ready to do it. But when we were kids, in that age, we didn’t know fully what it was all about. We had to learn… it was like “Why are we recycling? I heard they did that in World War 2”. So it seems like everyone’s ready to go, they just need the adult, or themselves to have the gunshot: this is what we’re doing, this is how we’re doing it.
Ryan of Big D: A lot of fans listen to bands, do what they say. [Warped Tour] has been great with getting bands more involved and speaking out to say that they’re into it and they support it.
Renee, on the weirdest things they find during clean ups: There’s a lot of shoes. People lose a lot of shoes, but only one… and flip flops. My volunteers always find money. I never find money, but you never know what you’re gonna find after those show
How are YOU being green this summer?