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Organization helps ACL Festival go green

The Austin Parks Foundation encouraged people to keep Zilker Park clean and recycle.

AUSTIN, Texas — Thousands of people enjoyed the first day of Weekend 2 at the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

The Austin Parks Foundation encouraged people to keep Zilker Park clean and recycle.

"Attendees can get a trash bag and collect aluminum cans and they can turn it in to get a festival T-shirt," said Colin Wallace with the Austin Parks Foundation.

Festival-goer Christian Rodriguez filled up a bag on Friday.

"Cool way to help out the festival and the environment. We are in this cool park and just like to keep it clean," Rodriguez said.

About 1,000 bags are collected each day of the festival and, in the end, those go to a recycling center. This year, the festival is also using reusable cups.

"The cup program is a new program. It’s a great program where you can use orange cups to get a drink and place it in some receptacles around the festival. If you register it, you can win some prizes – you can gamify it," Wallace said.

Trash and recycle bags are also set up all over the park.

"The festival does an amazing job making sure there are trash cans and things are getting picked up," Wallace said.

When it comes to overall cleanup, the festival contracts a company for cleanup efforts.

"Every night, it gets cleaned up into the wee hours of the night. And after the festival is over, there is a more substantial cleanup effort and restoration of the park, which goes on for several weeks after the festival is over," Wallace said.

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