Festivals that gather a large number of visitors have historically led to considerable consumption of disposable items and also a large amount of waste that is often not sorted at source. For GCF, sustainability work has long been the focus, but now the festival is raising the bar in ecological sustainability, by investing in being virtually waste-free within a few years. This is done, among other things, through the project Waste-Free Festivals, a collaboration with the City of Gothenburg’s Recycling and Water Department, with partial funding from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket) and The Swedish Waste Management Association (Avfall Sverige). The project includes a new deposit system for plates and cutlery, with the aim of largely removing the need for disposable items when serving food at festivals and similar events.