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If you are organizing a music festival, then you are probably most excited about scheduling the bands and setting up the camping areas. However, there is another important factor to be concerned with - sanitation.

When you have so many people in a wide, open space for days on end, there are plenty of opportunities for illness to be spread and for waste to end up where it shouldn't. Here are some tips to help you plan for better sanitation at your music festival.

If you do not have enough portable toilets onsite, they will get dirty or full too quickly. Assuming the festival lasts for about 10 hours a day, you'll need at least 25 portable toilets for a crowd of 2,000 people. If you have 5,000 attendees, then plan on about 63 toilets, and if you are expecting about 10,000 people, then rent at least 125 portable toilets. Arrange to have your rental company pump and clean the restrooms daily so that they remain clean and usable throughout the festival.

When festival-goers have had a few drinks and are absorbed into their favorite band's music, they won't feel like trekking long distance to find a toilet. They are more likely to use the proper facilities in a sanitary manner if they are close by.

When planning your festival layout, plan for multiple portable toilet areas spread throughout the grounds. Put some toilets near each stage and near the dining area. If festival-goers are camping overnight, then make sure you put plenty of portable toilets near the camping area as well. Try to put all toilets downwind from stages, food preparation areas, and camping areas to keep smells from spreading.

If you give festival-goers a welcome packet when they enter the grounds, then include little containers of hand sanitizer in those packets. This way, your attendees will be able to sanitize their hands before eating without having to stand in a hand-washing line. They will also find the sanitizer helpful at night when they're cleaning up and getting ready to camp.

You may also wish to set out baskets of individual hand sanitizer containers near the food service areas and toilets. Festival-goers can help themselves to a new container if they run out.

Hand sanitizer is great for killing germs, but it won't wash away food debris, mud, and other grime your festival-goers may have on their hands after a day of moshing and dancing. Rent some portable hand-washing stations, and set them up outside the portable toilet areas. If you give festival-goers the means to wash their hands, then you'll decrease the spread of germs and keep everything cleaner.

Trash - not just human waste - can also spread germs at a festival. To ensure that attendees do not discard food waste and other trash on the ground, make sure you place trash cans abundantly throughout the festival grounds - and not just near the dining areas.

Empty the trash cans on a regular schedule so they do not start overflowing. Have extra trash cans on hand so that if they are filling up too quickly, you can put more out in certain areas.

Music festivals do not have to be messy, unsanitary events. If you take the tips above into account when organizing your festival, then it will be a cleaner experience for everyone involved. Contact us at Gotta Go Site Service Rentals if you are looking for portable toilets and hand-washing stations for your next event.​