Bristol’s largest music festival has launched a new sustainability campaign that prohibits the use of single-use plastic and glitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Love Saves The Day will have compost toilets, women’s urinals, and eco-travel options at its new location at Ashton Court on the 2nd and 3rd of June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The event, which is expected to draw 50,000 people, intends to reduce its environmental impact by half by 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sustainability manager Pauline Bourdon stated that the site should evoke “empathy and identity” in visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to a report by Vision 2025, a network of 500 outdoor events and businesses, the UK festival industry generates approximately 25,800 tons of waste and consumes 7 million liters of fuel per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Ms Bourdon, the festival was a success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When people “connect together and have a moment of collective joy,” she says, they can “share thoughts and see different ways of behaving with food and waste, and that can translate into society.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year’s festival will feature the UK’s first women’s urinal. Ms Bourdon stated that the announcement about the Peequal, a women’s urinal invented by two Bristol University graduates, was “really well received.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She stressed the importance of not urinating in public “anywhere” on the property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“People believe it is due to sanitation, but it harms the soil and the ecosystem,” she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Compost toilets will make up one-third of the event’s toilets. There will also be more vegetarian and vegan options, as well as a bike lock park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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