The festival of beer and music known as Pilsner Fest ended last August. This year, it once again successfully strove to be a ?clean? festival, thanks to both great organisation and responsible visitors. The organisation Eko-KOM, which performs the evaluations, awarded the organisers with a certificate given to open-air events which successfully fulfil a strict criteria of recycling and trash cleanup. Plze?sk? Prazdroj, as a responsible beer producer and organiser of Pilsner Fest, also paid attention to visitors? responsible alcohol consumption. The festival offered visitors a novelty, the relax zone K-lee-deck, a special tent where people could relax, talk to experts about responsible alcohol consumption, use Promile Info services, and get access to alcohol testers.
For several years now, Plze?sk? Prazdroj has been working hard to ensure that Pilsner Fest improves every year. It should be a place where people feel good and are happy to return. Both the cleanliness of the event area during the festival and the responsible approach to alcohol consumption by all participants added to the pleasant atmosphere.
This year too, organisers motivated thousands of visitors to dispose of their trash in designated bins only. Hundreds of thousands of pieces of paper and plastic packaging ended up in eight high-capacity containers where it was sorted by 14 designated workers. For the overall cleanliness of the event area during the festival and for the subsequent sorting and recycling of the collected waste, Pilsner Fest received the Clean Festival certificate.
?Pilsner Fest is an important event visited every year by tens of thousands of visitors. It is important to us that people feel good there. Therefore, we are trying to motivate everybody to sort and recycle. We are pleased to see that visitors do not object joining with us in such a sensible activity as the Clean Festival project surely is. Recycling is a natural part of our approach to responsible social behaviour and to our business practises,? Vladim?r Jurina of Plze?sk? Prazdroj said.
The ecological project Clean Festival was started by the authorised packaging company Eko-KOM. The vision of the campaign is to bring recycling and separation of waste to public, open-air, big events. For fulfilling strict ecological criteria, each participating festival receives a one-year certificate from the Eko-KOM Company. The following year, every awarded festival must fulfil strict requirements and thus prove that it still is an ecological festival.
Another key area which Plze?sk? Prazdroj, as a beer producer, supports and propagates is responsible alcohol consumption. At the event this year, visitors had the chance to use Promile Info services to find out if their blood alcohol level was zero. 118 people used an approximate breath test on a calibrated tester, and 215 visitors installed the Smartphone application Promile INFO, which monitors the time when the level of consumed alcohol in their blood drops to zero. Furthermore, visitors took with them single use ?alcotesters? for later use. This year?s novelty was the relax zone K-lee-deck, where anyone could get various information regarding responsible alcohol consumption directly from experts. According to the rules of responsible communication, the festival beverage menu included the non-alcoholic beer Birell on draught, too.
?I am happy that our cooperation with Plze?sk? Prazdroj stepped up to a new level in the area of responsible alcohol consumption. The K-lee-deck zone provided us with much better contact with festival visitors, our work was much more effective, and I believe that we have also added to the pleasant atmosphere of the entire event,? Ji?? Richter, Director of Civic Association SANANIM said.