Cut n bag local pollution solution.

MOOP Master Facilitating Greener Sustainable events and festivals in Southern Africa.

No art, culture, poetry, music or dance on a dead planet.

Fixtures: Single-use nylon cable ties. Edit(signage and fencing contractors)

Sustainable events are now normative, as we embody a greener event & festival culture as Southern Africa moves to align with International best practices facilitating the blurring the boundaries between art and nature., your career is in the Sustainable events & festival industry has started!

Cut n bag local pollution solution to the millions of cable ties that pollute festival and event sites across Southern Africa. Cut n bag is a simple effective process of eliminating nylon fixtures entering into the environment. Most event sites' waste management is robust however there are oversights and with simple process changes like Cut n bag can help us become more sustainable. All contractors using and removing fasteners for example fencing contractors to carry shoulder bags and place the cut cable ties therein and to be disposed of off-site. Cleaners do not know where the signage was erected and from my experience on various event sites, the cable ties once cut are dropped into the grass and disappears at its base and are hard to spot.

Lawnmowers, trimmers and weed eaters then break up the cable ties into smaller pieces which disappear into the grass. Cable ties found on event and festival sites are majority production related with some cable ties found onsite are from attendees opening up the packing for the products they bought for the event like new tents or gazebos. Like the production crews (fencing contractors), attendees simply drop the cable ties for it to disappear from the eye as soon the ties hit the grass.

100 billion single-use non-recyclable cable- ties are produced every year. Cable ties are made from Nylon, they are non-biodegradable, ie the nylon modules are forever because it is completely synthetic, Nylon plastic cable ties are not recyclable. however, they degrade into nano-nylon particles when exposed to the elements and become brittle. 1000s of cable ties are left on event and festival site when signage is removed by production. Black cable ties. (C6H11NO)n. (polyamide).

Cable ties are made from Nylon, they are non-biodegradable, ie the nylon modules are forever because it is completely synthetic, Nylon plastic cable ties are not recyclable. however, they degrade into nano-nylon particles when exposed to the elements and become brittle. 1000s of cable ties are left on event and festival site when signage is removed by production. Most event sites' waste management is robust however there are oversights and with simple process changes Cut and bag. Cleaners do not know where the signage was erected and from my experience on various event sites, the cable ties once cut are dropped into the grass and disappears at its base and are hard to spot.

Cut n bag local pollution solution to the millions of cable ties that pollute festival and event sites across Southern Africa.