Description: Recycle Now is the national recycling campaign for England and Northern Ireland, which aims to motivate more people, to recycle more of the right things, more often.
Festivals are getting much better at encouraging sustainability these days, which is just as well given the huge amount of waste generated by the average event. Indeed, UK festivals are responsible for 25,800 tonnes of waste each year – and only a third of it is reused or recycled. But there’s only so much that festival organisers can do to make sure they’re kinder to the environment – the rest is down to us as festival-goers. Here’s what you can do to have an eco-friendly festival season.
Putting the right stuff in the right bin is important. The wrong stuff is called contamination. Most of us are getting it right, however, when too much contaminated material is collected, it potentially prevents the whole lorry load of material from being recycled.
How to Recycle