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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, ...
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.
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 ...
But, with one of the UK's biggest festivals about to kick off, Glastonbury's rules on single-use plastic look to be a big step in the right direction. The levels of waste have been a problem at ...
Summer is the time of music festivals - and a new study published in the scientific journal Geoforum has suggested that they offer an opportunity for people to try out more sustainable lifestyles.
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 ...
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 ...