Waste prevention
04.07. 2019
We already noticed last year that you you visibly took our appeal to heart to avoid trash and to dispose of any trash that might occur properly. We would like to thank everyone for being so considerate! We'd also like to keep this up and kick our efforts up just another little notch. For all the first timers, and people whose memory may have suffered from alcoholic incidents, here's a quick wrap up of what we mean:
Littering on the Dong hill leaves a particularly bitter aftertaste. All year round, the hill serves as a local recreation area, and is also home to unique and diverse wildlife. Trash diminishes the quality of this refugium. On top of all this, littering falls back on us, the Dong Open Air, because we are the event that gets to stay on the hill the longest in days per year, plus, we're the only ones who allow camping.
In order to keep the festival cost-effective, we always have to pass the trash removal / cleanup charges on to you. But regardless of the financial aspect, we would like you to cause as little garbage as possible – and to use the bags, cans, and containers we provide.
Please, don't bring glass items, don't bring confetti cannons, unless they're equipped with bio-degradable confetti.
Avoid breaking glass, and if you come across any shards, carefully collect them and throw them in a trash can – you're helping make sure no one is getting hurt.
If you don't see a point in taking home your tent, your pavilion, or any other camping equipment, please take them apart, and put them in a trash container. Or, even better, give them to Zeltretter (tent savers), a nonprofit organisation that will be on site. They refurbish discarded tents for charity.
The Dong Hill, the Halde Norddeutschland, is one of the most beautiful event venues Germany has to offer. It immediately loses a great deal of its appeal, when people mistake the mine dump from the surrounding former coal mines as a landfill.
The famous Burning Man festival in the US and its ten thousands of visitors (an event also well known for its revealing and liberal festival experience) manage to avoid almost 100% of all littering.
Why shouldn't a metal festival and the metal heads not be up to this challenge?
Thank you all for cooperating,
Your Dong Team
Waste prevention
09.07. 2018
Unnecessary garbage leaves a particularly bitter aftertaste when it is left on the Dong hill. The hill serves as a local recreation area all year round, but it is also home to multifaceted animal wildlife. Garbage diminishes the quality of this refuge. On top of that, all the negative consequences fall back on the Dong Open Air as we're the event that occupies the hill for the longest duration throughout the year, and the only ones that offer camping.
In order to keep the festival cost-effective, we always have to pass the trash removal / cleanup charges on to you. But regardless of the financial aspect, we would like you to cause as little garbage as possible – and to use the bags, cans, and containers we provide.
Please, don't bring glass items, don't bring confetti cannons, unless they're equipped with bio-degradable confetti.
Avoid breaking glass, and if you come across any, carefully collect them and throw them in a trash can – you're helping make sure no one is getting hurt.
If you don't see a point in taking home your tent, your pavilion, or any other camping equipment, please take them apart, and put them in a trash container.
The Dong Hill, the Halde Norddeutschland, is one of the most beautiful event venues Germany has to offer. It immediately loses a great deal of its appeal, when people mistake the mine dump from the surrounding former coal mines as a landfill.
Thank you all for cooperating,
Your Dong Team