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It Isn't Easy Being Green GRAND RAPIDS, MI (Michigan Radio) - Tens of thousands of music fans headed home today after the Rothbury Music Festival wrapped up. Organizers made environmentalism a big theme of the festival. And they had a huge cleanup job.

On the festival's first day, people waiting in line to enter the camping site turned off their cars and pushed as a way to cut down on emissions.

But by Monday morning, most of the campers were gone, and they left behind piles of trash - everything from stray shoes to empty vodka bottles.

One concertgoer, who gave the name Carl Smith, says Rothbury was cleaner than many of the music festivals he's been to, but most people were just there for a good time.

"A lot of people in the back of their heads would think about it when they saw the trash cans and whatnot," Smith says. "But I don't think at the end of the day, when everyone was partying and enjoying the music, they cared where their trash went."

But most of that trash did get sorted. Volunteers helped separate out what could be recycled, or composted. © Copyright 2012, Michigan Radio