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3 top tips on how to go 鈥榸ero waste鈥� during festival season

9 July 2018

Festivals are great fun, but they’re also messy business: lots of people; lots of mud; lots of waste.

One way to combat their negative impact on the environment is to try producing little or no waste.

Kate Chambers, a contributor to 大象传媒 The Social, tried get into the festival spirit without harming the planet...

Zero Waste At A Festival

Go to a festival without destroying the planet!

Of course you want to look your best when hitting the summer festivals. But rather than hitting the high street for her fleek festival fashion, Kate decided to visit her local charity and vintage shops.

Our predilection for fast fashion means that 300,000 tonnes of clothes are sent to landfill each year — “the equivalent of 80,000 hippopotami”.

“So why not revamp your old wardrobe or buy second-hand... like me?”

As well as being “this season’s most on-trend accessory” in their own right, reusable water bottles are also a must for festivals.

Pollution caused by plastic is a huge issue; using a reusable water bottle means that you won’t be adding plastic bottles to the amount of rubbish left at the end of a festival.

Another benefit of reusable bottles is that you can use the filling stations, meaning you won’t have to queue as long at the festival bars and potentially miss your favourite bands.

Kate believes that no festival look is complete without a sprinkling of glitter. But what you may not know is that, since conventional glitter is made from plastic, it’s an environmental problem.

If you want to be a member of the glitterati – but still as ‘zero waste’ as possible – ensure you pick up the biodegradable variety so your glitter doesn’t become litter.