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In the UK, roughly a quarter of a million broken tents are left behind at music festivals every year, most of which will end up on a landfill. An average tent weighs 3.5 kilos and is mainly made ...
The AIF have partnered with 60 festivals across the UK to launch a Take Your Tent home initiative, and are calling on retailers such as Argos and Tesco to stop marketing and selling ‘festival ...
Glastonbury Is Going Green – Here's How To Have Your Most Sustainable Festival Yet. ... An estimated 250,000 tents are left at music festivals across the UK every year, ...
How have you become a more sustainable festival? SC: "Certainly from the veganism and plastic side of things. In 2017, when we moved site, we became a bigger festival and did all the bars ...
The UK’s Glastonbury, one of the world’s most iconic music festivals, ... Making a festival genuinely sustainable is difficult, however, with the challenges varying by location.
Acting on key learnings from the pilot events, the festival is continuing to reduce emissions while pursuing accurate measurement for the remaining unavoidable ones. Using Biochar for carbon capture, ...
Bestival and Shambala are among 61 festivals that have pledged to ban all single-use plastic from their sites by 2021, as part of a Drastic on Plastic initiative. This year has seen single-use ...
We are proud to promote Accelerate – The Sustainable Events Fund, an initiative designed to inspire and support cycling communities across the UK in reducing the environmental impact of cycling events ...
Hampshire, UK / August 9 - 12Boomtown is one of the UK’s best-loved alt festivals since launching in 2008 and the organisers have just been given the green light to hold it for a fifth day this ...
Festival Republic – the music promotor behind Reading & Leeds, Latitude and more – has teamed up with Music Declares Emergency in an effort to bring renewable power to UK festival sites.
How have you become a more sustainable festival? SC: "Certainly from the veganism and plastic side of things. In 2017, when we moved site, we became a bigger festival and did all the bars ...