Festival grounds and services

Phone charging

You will be able to charge your phone at our merch tent.

Clean Festival

At the festival, you will find colour-marked spots where you can easily sort your waste. Plastics go into the yellow-marked section, paper into the blue one, and mainly drink cans or other small metal waste into the grey one. Glass will also be sorted in the camping areas and bar facilities.

You can also sort your waste at the Clean Festival stand. If you bring plastic or paper waste there, you can receive practical festival gifts made from recycled materials.

Why is sorting waste important?

Sorting waste saves natural resources. Recycling paper helps save trees. By sorting glass and aluminium cans, less sand, bauxite and other raw materials need to be mined. Recycling plastic packaging also saves oil, which is needed to produce it.

When waste is not sorted, it often ends up in landfill. There, a plastic cup takes decades to decompose, a PET bottle can take up to a hundred years, a can around fifteen years, and some materials, such as glass or polystyrene, practically do not decompose in nature at all.

How to sort waste correctly

Sorted plastic waste includes polystyrene cups for hot drinks, plastic cups for cold drinks, plastic bags, shopping bags, crushed PET bottles and plastic tableware. Just please remember to remove any leftover food into mixed waste before throwing things away.

A paper cup with a foil lining cannot be recycled, so it belongs in mixed waste. The same applies to dirty paper plates, napkins, tissues and baby diapers — these also belong in mixed waste.

What happens to sorted waste?

Bags of sorted waste from the coloured bins are taken to larger containers in the backstage area. Large-capacity containers are used so that transport to the sorting line is as efficient as possible and has the lowest possible impact on the environment.

After final sorting, individual waste materials are sent for recycling. Plastics can be turned into new packaging, car interior parts, functional textile fibres, construction boards or paving. Paper is recycled into new paper, metals are turned into new metal products and packaging, and glass is melted down again to make new jars or bottles.

A few interesting facts

The paper sorted over 17 years at Clean Festivals would be enough to produce 375,000 rolls of toilet paper.

The PET bottles sorted over 17 years could be used to make filling for 102,000 sleeping bags.

With the necessary additives, the recycled plastic cups sorted by festival visitors could be turned into recycled paving for a 26-kilometre-long and 2-metre-wide pavement.

PsyCare

Who are we?

As the Czech Psychedelic Society — CZEPS — we aim to create space for open discussion about psychedelic substances, their benefits and their risks. Under our organisation, the psychedelic first aid project PsyCare was created. PsyCare brings together, educates and coordinates volunteers from many different professions — from psychologists to artists — who want to help others in challenging situations caused by the use of psychedelics.

Our goals

We want to provide a safe environment for people who are going through a difficult psychedelic experience, especially at events where this kind of support is needed, such as larger music events and festivals. We will try to help people get through the experience without more serious consequences and, where possible, allow them to benefit from it.

Why do we do this?

Current legislation does not allow the use of psychedelics even in a safe and controlled environment — for example in a medical setting as part of psychotherapy, in the presence of a trained professional, shaman or another guide. This is one of the reasons why people often choose to use these substances on their own, in all kinds of situations.

Whether we like it or not, young people — and not only young people — use consciousness-altering substances bought from unknown sources. Their use carries risks that are rarely discussed in concrete terms. Taking these substances in an unsuitable environment can have far-reaching consequences. But it does not have to, if the person receives appropriate immediate support.

According to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, the most common difficult experiences with psychedelics occur among uninformed first-time users. These are exactly the kinds of people we can often encounter at selected music events and festivals. Compared to the total number of people using these substances, the percentage of those who cannot manage the experience is low. However, every single person we help is someone who might otherwise end up medicated in psychiatric care.

In other countries, this service is already a well-established standard, and every year its effectiveness is shown by a decreasing number of festival hospitalisations compared to years when PsyCare was not present.

More services and information will be specified later.