FUTURE HOME
Welcome to NRW’s most colorful and beautiful feel-good festival! As organizers, we are aware of our responsibility – to create an atmosphere for you that enchants you, but also not to lose sight of our environment and society. That’s why we actively strive to make San Hejmo as resource-saving, environmentally conscious and socially responsible as possible with various measures. In implementing these measures, we receive support from our sponsors and partners – but your support is also important, let’s work together for a better future!
We are investing in our future!
Our Festival Site
Upcycling
The recycling and upcycling of old, discarded material is an essential part of deco production at San Hejmo. We repair, rebuild and upgrade wherever we can. For example, materials and design elements from PAROOKAVILLE are also used for San Hejmo to create backdrops and furnishings.
We also use materials that others might dispose of or no longer need – such as buses that have been converted into a cocktail bar or a merchandise stand, for example, our Bimmelbahn, which travels around the site as a small mobile entertainment stage.
When it comes to art, we also focus on the motto of reuse. Our street artists’ artworks are not disposed of after the festival, but are added to our existing gallery every year.
Through our upcycling projects, we aim to encourage creativity and innovation and inspire our visitors to discover new ways of using old objects to create unique and innovative decorations.
Sustainable vehicle fleet
More and more of our production vehicles, including off-road vehicles and scooters, are electrically powered. These vehicles significantly reduce our CO2 emissions and underline our commitment to more sustainable mobility. Some of the electricity used to charge the scooters is also generated directly on site using solar panels.
E-Tickets
Did you already know? You no longer have to present your ticket in printed form, a digital version is sufficient for admission. This way you can help us to act more sustainably by saving paper and conserving resources.
We are cleaning up!
Recycling and waste prevention
Campsite - Waste separation, cleanliness and recycling centers
A festival with around 10,000 campers generates a lot of waste. Keeping our campsite – which is used as an agricultural area for the rest of the year – clean and leaving it clean is very important to us and our duty. And for this we need your support!
We appeal to our campers to take their tents and pavilions back with them. If this is not possible, containers are available for disposal. We also call on you to separate waste into yellow bags, paper/cardboard and residual waste and take it to our recycling center or the waste separation stations on the campsite.
We charge a waste deposit at the campsite, which must be paid when purchasing a ticket. When checking in to the campsite, our citizens receive an empty garbage bag in combination with a garbage deposit coin. As soon as the garbage bag and coin are handed in at our garbage deposit station, the deposit amount is also refunded. This is a very successful way of ensuring that garbage is disposed of correctly and does not end up loose on the campsite.
Green Camp
Mindfulness is particularly important at our “Green Camp” campsite – not only towards each other, but also towards the environment. That’s why waste avoidance and a good night’s sleep are the guiding principles in this area. Last year, we were absolutely thrilled with how clean you left the Green Camp – keep it up!
Cup deposit system
Our deposit system has made our site more sustainable and cleaner. Each drink incurs a deposit, which you simply get back when you return it. We want to motivate you to return cups and cans so that they can be recycled.
Backstage, we are paying more attention to the use of reusable containers. All employees are provided with a free, reusable water bottle, which can be refilled at free water dispensers throughout the festival site.
Sustainability in gastronomy
No more plastic! Disposable plastic products such as straws, tableware and stirrers have been banned from sale since 2020 for good reason and have also been banned from our festival for some time. Here you will only find sustainable materials.
In addition, almost all food trucks at our festival are from NRW and source their products for the production of the food from the region.
Support us by leaving plastic confetti and cutlery at home, for example! Let’s start together!
One way? More way? All the way!
We have spent a lot of time looking at how we can be as sustainable as possible when using beverage cups at the festival. This is a very complex issue that requires us to weigh up many components. Our solution is neither disposable nor reusable, but to a certain extent a circular system that can be realized with recyclable disposable packaging. With our experienced and innovative partners, we ensure a circular system in which the beverage cups can be fully recycled and therefore used again and again. The PET cups are supplied by our partner, Faerch, while REMONDIS takes care of the recycling. We are convinced that this system conserves the most resources and is by far the most sustainable for our specific requirements.
And you can make a significant contribution to ensuring that this recycling system works as smoothly as possible by returning empty beverage cups to the counters – and then of course getting your deposit back. We take care of the rest with our partners.
We assume responsibility!
Social and ecological commitment.
Regional
San Hejmo has supported the region since the beginning of the festival. Every year, local restaurants, companies and associations are asked to provide support for the entire festival, so that the entire region benefits directly from the festival.
Zukunftsmusik e.V.
The non-profit organization Zukunftsmusik e.V. has been a loyal partner of San Hejmo since the festival’s inception and collects large quantities of deposit donations on the festival grounds and campsites every year in cooperation with our long-standing partner PENNY. Zukunftsmusik e.V. uses the proceeds for the musical education of disadvantaged children.
Special Needs
We want to enable all people, even those with disabilities, to be part of the most beautiful and colorful feel-good festival in NRW.
That’s why visitors with disabilities receive free tickets for accompanying persons. Barrier-free toilets are available throughout the festival grounds. Electric wheelchairs can of course be charged free of charge.
Food for thought/all:
When selecting our food offerings, we are paying increasing attention to regional and organic service providers. We have also increased our range of vegetarian and vegan dishes many times over.
“Foodsharing – is caring!”. In cooperation with PENNY Festivals, we donate food that has not been consumed at the end of each day to the local food bank in Weeze.
At Future Home, it is important for us to work honestly and based on facts, just as it is for all our communication. The road to more sustainability for a major event like San Hejmo is long and we have to consider many aspects such as security of supply and availability. But we love challenges that we can tackle together with you, our great visitors. We are trying to use our reach to raise even more awareness for the topic.
Do you have any projects or ideas that could help us with Future Home? – Feel free to contact us!
future.home@sanhejmo.com
