Love Saves The Day launches sustainability campaign for 10th anniversary
Organisers are banning single use plastics and urging festival goers to ditch fast fashion
Bristol’s biggest music festival Love Saves The Day, has launched a sustainability awareness campaign, ahead of its 10 year anniversary event.
This year, the festival is relocating to Ashton Court over the Queen’s Jubilee bank holiday weekend 2-3 June 2022.
The campaign has started with a dive into the history and ecosystems of Ashton Court.
The team are sharing ways the festival has taken steps to try to ensure that partying and caring for our planet go hand-in-hand, inviting attendees to think about waste, food consumption, water usage and their day-to-day choices.
One of the main steps to a sustainable festival is banning single use plastics.
Organizers are encouraging visitors to bring their own reusable water bottles, and there will be metal ones available to purchase.
The same goes for cups.
The whole event will be based on reusable cups, which attendees can buy in the beginning and use during the whole event.
There are more veggie and vegan food traders this year and everything will be served in biodegradable or compostable dishes.
When it comes to festival fashion choices, Love Saves the Day is encouraging those attending to support local designers and buy sustainable festival outfits.
Festival goers are encouraged to make their own, purchase second-hand (from thrift and charity shops) or even repurpose old outfits and clothes-swap with friends.
In terms of toilets, two thirds of them will be compost toilets.
They are also introducing PEEQUAL this year, a safe and sustainable urinal for women.
It’s made from recycled ocean plastic and uses 98 per cent less CO2 than portable toilets - and was designed by University of Bristol graduates.
Transport usually makes up 80 per cent of the festivals’ carbon footprint.
With a city location, the organisers say it is easy for attendees to use low-emission transport to get to the site.
Team Love have arranged a £2 return Love Bus, which is carbon-balanced with ecolibrium.
For those wanting a completely emission-free journey, the festival encourages walking or cycling to the site and has a bike lock park at the Ashton Court Mansion car park.
There are also green options for travel for those commuting from outside Bristol, as the festival has partnered with Big Green Coach.
Pauline Bourdon, Sustainability Manager at Team Love, explains: “The festival is our love letter to music, its communities, and the planet.
"We believe we have a responsibility to inspire awareness and changes in the local area, emphasising the duty of care towards future generations and communities, to make sure they can also experience the benefits of live music, arts, and culture for years to come.”
Organisers have also signed the Vision: 2025 Pledge - an event industry initiative that aims to inspire events to measure their environmental impacts and reduce them by 50 per cent by the year 2025 and are aiming for Net Zero by 2030.
If you want to find out more about the sustainability efforts of Love Saves The Day, you can read more on their website here.