As such, initiatives on-site at the festival include a plate and cutlery rental service for guests (reducing single-use plastic), strict rules around the use of local, sustainably-sourced products that are meat free and able to be composted on-site, perks for festival goers who walk, cycle or take public transport to the festival, and even the creation of a tree-planting scheme that ultimately aims to move the festival from ‘sustainable’ to ‘regenerative’. Working in conjunction with numerous others, these ideas have aided the festival in reducing its on-site carbon emissions to almost zero.
And yet, the festival is constantly aiming to improve, as Em Weirdigan, another of the festival’s directors, explains.
'We like to pay attention to the less obvious ways to make our festival-goers experience more comfortable while also improving the sustainability of the event,” says Em, “A new initiative for 2022 is just such a double-win: we invented ‘moon loos’, screened off toilets with private facilities for washing reusable sanitary pads and moon cups, to enable people having periods to avoid all the plastic in disposable sanitary wear, even at a festival.'
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