International Festival in Lafayette Offers Music, Culture, Food and…Recycling
Recycling bin at Festival International in Lafayette, Louisiana. Photo credit: Sadie Wilks 2026. Every year, thousands of people from all over the world flock to the Festival International de Louisiane in Lafayette to experience great music, food and art. But with all the celebration, tons of trash accumulate. In the early years, the festival just sent it to a landfill. That was until Eldred “Griff” Blakewood, Professor of Geosciences at the University of Lafayette, proposed an alternative:...
