Ultra Music Festival has just received the prestigious Sustainability Team Award at the annual World Sustainability Awards ceremony, spotlighting their dedication to the earth.
Out of an international pool of 220 applications from 35 different countries, Ultra was recognized for its sustainability program, Mission: Home, which is run by four women from diverse ethnic and social backgrounds.
Mission: Home first began in 2019 as a collaborative effort to educate and reduce the impacts of the music festival on the environment.
Since then, the program has been recognized by the Florida Festivals and Events Association, Oceanic Global, Debris Free Oceans, and more.
The 2023 edition of the program hosted 40 initiatives to reduce waste, prevent pollution, preserve nature, and other sustainable activities, helping the festival divert over 184,000 pounds of waste from landfills.
Partners include Replenysh, a circularity platform that offers full traceability on their recyclable materials to ensure the items end up exactly where intended without transporting them to far-off places that would increase the carbon footprint.
Ultra has also donated over 7,500 lbs of food alone in the past few years to the homeless outreach center, The Caring Place.
Mission Home will return to Bayfront Park in 2024 with Ultra’s founder and CEO, Russell Faibisch, saying, “Our ‘Mission: Home’ program has become part of the fabric of our organization. I could not be more proud to be recognized as an industry leader on this global stage.”
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