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♻️ AFF #GreenFestival ♻️

Dear* friend* of Animaphix,
We firmly believe that every organization has a duty to reduce its environmental impact. As “Green Festival”, our aim is to demonstrate that it is possible to organize extraordinary events without compromising the planet. This is why we are committed to following the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for a greener and more sustainable future! Together, we can make a difference and contribute to the fight against climate change. That’s how:

🚲 Sustainable mobility

We know how important it is to reduce CO2 emissions. For this reason, we encourage all participants to use environmentally friendly means of transport. Arrive at the festival by bicycle, by public transport or use the bike sharing service offered by the coop. BEP. The regulation and operating information are available on the tourist website of the Municipality of Bagheria and in the specific youMove app, downloadable for Android and iOS.
The Organization will be equipped with an electric car for internal travel, supplied by the AUTO HIMERA dealership, with which a partnership has been launched this year to promote sustainable mobility.

🚫 Plastic Free

Let’s say NO to single-use plastic! Bring a reusable water bottle! Thanks to the support of MAXIMUM, a leading company in the water treatment systems market, which has always been attentive to sustainability, we will have a drinking water fountain available to refill your water bottle for free. Don’t have it? Thanks to the partnership with the companies Maximum and Alleanza Assicurazioni, we will give it to you as a gift.

To combat plastic pollution, the Festival has started a collaboration with the PLASTIC FREE Association, to raise awareness as many people as possible through moments of information.

🚯 Responsible waste management

A festival can generate a large amount of waste. Our goal is to become zero waste: for this reason, in collaboration with AMB, a subsidiary company for waste management in Bagheria, we have implemented separate collection points throughout the Villa Cattolica area. Every small gesture counts: reduce, reuse and recycle is our mission.

♻️ Social awareness and responsibility

The environment is our priority. This is why, in collaboration with ARPA Sicily – Regional Agency for the Protection of the Environment, we created the cinema and environmental sustainability project “Animaphix Go Green”, aimed at primary schools in the area, to convey – through the viewing of thematic films, meetings with sector experts and animation cinema workshops – the principles of environmental education, with concrete examples and easily replicable behavioral models, to make children participate and aware of their role in safeguarding the environment. For the same reason, we have chosen to reduce the use of paper. Paper production contributes to massive deforestation, involves the emission of large quantities of carbon dioxide and involves the consumption of enormous quantities of water. New technologies offer efficient and sustainable alternatives. For a few years now we have chosen to no longer print the Festival program and catalog and to use a digital version that can be consulted on the Festival website and via QR codes distributed on some panels in the festival locations to be scanned using your mobile devices, so as to have the day-by-day program and the Festival contents always “at hand”.