Coachella brings adrenaline-fueled sets to hundreds of thousands of festival-goers who gather in the California desert -- and it also leaves behind a lot of trash.
Beyond the plastic cups and water bottles strewn about each day, there's also the immense energy use of floodlights and earsplitting speakers.
"That's way bigger than the energy and waste use in production at the festival itself," she told AFP. And the rare snowcaps on the San Jacinto Mountains that tower over the festival are an eerie reminder of California's abnormal winter, which in the past months saw atmospheric rivers, near-record snow, flooding and fatalities.
Turkish-born, LA-based DJ Omer Mesci, who played a set at the festival, agrees:"As artists we have an audience and we have a voice, and people tend to listen to us." It's relatively routine however for staff to hand out plastic water bottles to fans at the very front of stages to avoid dehydration under the oft-blazing sun, and many cocktails are sold in plastic cups.
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